On 11/1/17 1:20 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
Markus Feilner composed on 2017-10-31 14:29 (UTC-0400):
Richard Brown composed:
If Luca is right (and I think he is) then I would like to point out that you agreed to the following when you installed Mesa-dri-nouveau on your system: "WARNING: Nouveau DRI/3D driver selected. BTW: That warning is completely new to me, after two years of Nvidia GFX Card and Tumbleweed with Nouveau only. Are you absolutely sure about "only"? I ask because /etc/X11/xorg_pci_ids/ was implemented around 20 months ago: https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=972126#c6
Nouveau has always been the standard selection on my TW systems, neither did I choose it nor did I get that message, it simply worked... I didn't have many problems with it. Last week was the first time I gave in and installed the NVIDIA drivers, but only because of the recent repository (and to check if that was the problem's root). Did I miss something or do something wrong? There are more than just NVidia and Nouveau drivers for NVidia gfxchips since quite some years ago. Modesetting, a separate driver package pre-server-17.0, integrated since (2015-02-05 on TW), is a third. None of my GeForce-equipped PCs have (or ever had) non-FOSS drivers installed. Most use modesetting, only the tiny balance nouveau.
Hi, this is not completely right, there are in fact only two feature rich drivers for non-ancient Nvidia cards: Of course the Nvidia closed-source blob and nouveau. Yet the nouveau driver consist of different layers, the most important ones are: * the in-kernel driver part * a "glue layer" (libdrm) * a driver for the XServer: xf86-video-nouveau (which you can indeed be replaced with xf86-video-modesetting) * an OpenGL driver in Mesa So even if you replace the XServer driver, it will still use the underlying kernel driver, see [1] for a general graphical representation. It is possible to blacklist the nouveau kernel driver, but doing this leaves you behind with a basic driver. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_3D#/media/File:Linux_Graphics_Stack_2013.... Greetings, Tobias -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org