Hi dev@ list.
Writing a bit about the situation with xorg and mesa when using the
nvidia proprietary drivers.
I am using an nvidia gpu with the proprietary drivers, on xorg.
I use the proprietary drivers, because I found that the nouveau drivers
don't really work too well.
When using the nv
For some reason, hardware acceleration didn't work for my gpu.
See this thread on the gentoo forums:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1164703.html
În 3 septembrie 2024 22:35:46 EEST, Sean MacLennan a scris:
>On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:54:36 +
>stefan1 wrote:
>
>> I am using an nvidi
On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:54:36 +
stefan1 wrote:
> I am using an nvidia gpu with the proprietary drivers, on xorg.
> I use the proprietary drivers, because I found that the nouveau
> drivers don't really work too well.
How did the nouveau drivers not work well? I only use the nouveau
driver
> When using the nvidia proprietary drivers on xorg, mesa is often pulled
> in as an aditional dependency.
> This dependency is not needed, because, by design, the proprietary
> drivers don't use mesa, instead re-implementing everything in mesa.
>
> The reason this is the case is because xorg, w
On 2024-09-03 15:35:46 -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:54:36 +
> stefan1 wrote:
>
> > I am using an nvidia gpu with the proprietary drivers, on xorg.
> > I use the proprietary drivers, because I found that the nouveau
> > drivers don't really work too well.
>
> How
