On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 19:39 -0300, George N. White III wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 3:20 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 19:39 +0200, François Patte wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I'll probably have to go back to the Nvidia drivers anyway as the > > > > Nouveau one is noticeably worse in Steam, even at low settings. > > > > > > I don't know what Steam is.... > > > > It's a commercial gaming platform which is supported on Linux. I'm not > > a big gamer but occasionally I indulge. Unfortunately this means using > > the Nvidia drivers, at least for the titles I've tried. > > > > > > > > I had to revert to nouveau recently > > > because the nvidia driver (340-96) is unable to give a correct > > > configuration if I plug a beamer on the VGA plug of my laptop. > > > > My reason for switching to Nouveau originated in randomly not being > > able to resume from hibernation when using the Nvidia drivers > > (discussed on another thread). So it seems I can have either Steam or > > hibernation, but not both. > > > > This sort of trade-off is all too common, occurs across distros, and usually > requires experimentation by each user to figure out what works for a > particular use case. These days distros have converged to the point > that many bugs affect multiple distros, > > In a small fraction of cases, the details show up in a mail list or forum. > In a small fraction of those cases, someone who really understands > the issue explains how to get to the root cause of the malfunctions. > Fedora users in particular should expect to run into problems and > should be prepared to invest some time digging into the problem > and documenting the findings. > > > Do you recognize your steam problem at > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam#Steam_runtime_issues?
I don't have a problem with Steam. As long as I use the Nvidia drivers it works perfectly well. My problem is with hibernation. See the thread starting at: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/K3AI2V6AAW3SXYD4WI7AKUVP7HGYQRN5/#NLCYKEWHYTODJPM7QHHUCH22LCEQOWCQ poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
