From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SII18-000397-Rg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:16:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 315ACE0E6D; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:16:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com (postler.lichtfels.com [78.46.92.195]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F390E0E55 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 11:15:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09E28BB for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:16:56 +0200 (CEST) Received: from postler.lichtfels.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (postler.lichtfels.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with LMTP id 02847-10 for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:16:54 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hiro.oops.intern (mail.oops.co.at [213.129.238.225]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by postler.lichtfels.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CE2F838A4D for ; Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:16:54 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4F86B933.2010501@xunil.at> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:14:59 +0200 From: "Stefan G. Weichinger" Organization: oops! User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120331 Thunderbird/11.0.1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nvidia-drivers vs. nouveau References: <4F85EBDA.3050605@xunil.at> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.2a X-Archives-Salt: 948723ed-9b6e-4d6a-b659-5b7bf17b8ea4 X-Archives-Hash: ed9440b1b63cd9bcbad0b18e8064bb8e Am 11.04.2012 23:14, schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: > Unless you need to use the console (nvidia-drivers don't provide a KMS > fb console,) there's no reason to use Nouveau at the moment. The binary > drivers perform better and save much more energy. With Nouveau, your > GPU will be running full-on constantly. NVidia's drivers will reduce > clocks and voltages when the card is idle. Although I like the aspect of open source drivers I also like the idea of saving energy. So I stay with nvidia-drivers for now. S