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nouveau is not killed it is just blacklisted. Btw. older installers asked already if you want to blacklist nouveau, so there is just a switch to do so, thats nothing magical. I would just prefer a switch to disable all X runtime, nouveau or whatever checks, that is really annoying. Every few releases there was a new check, some i avoided using mount --bind or so, but basically all that worked later was killing X inside screen. At least that works - a bit tricky but you can switch from nouveau to nvidia binary without rebooting. When you try the same with fglrx your system will definitely crash. Unloading radeon is however possible with the same trick.
Btw. on newer distributions with multiarch i highly recommend using the official distro packages (or correct backports) instead of running the nvidia installer directly - usually now they are very tightly integrated with switching support and other things that will definitely brake when you use the installer. The same is for fglrx, but there you could try to build distro specific packages. That does not work for Debian wheezy+ however.
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Kano,
yes, my post was exaggerated satire, but I'm understandably upset that the only contribution Nvidia is making to the nouveau project is blacklisting it. This attitude is nothing new, but command line switches like this one are quite cynical.
I have to run Nvidia hardware at work (Cuda/OpenCL) and I had problems with official packages (Debian). The drivers themselves work (you have to pull them from experimental), but the Cuda/CL stuff is incomplete and broken, and I had to go back to the installer. This is also annoying -- I hate running closed source binaries as root. The whole process feels antiquated and alien to the operating system.
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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Postyes, my post was exaggerated satire, but I'm understandably upset that the only contribution Nvidia is making to the nouveau project is blacklisting it.
Yes, making a driver more user friendly is a bad thing.
So the user should be greeted with an X11 that doesn't start and it should be impossible to disable the open driver. Yey, what a great idea. You're a genius.
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Originally posted by pingufunkybeat View Postyes, my post was exaggerated satire, but I'm understandably upset that the only contribution Nvidia is making to the nouveau project is blacklisting it. This attitude is nothing new, but command line switches like this one are quite cynical.
now, regarding VDPAU + KDE4 + composition + SMPlayer:
*mplayer2-windowed - some mouse slowdown for my USB mouse ( I won't notice it as I go for fullscreen anyway most of the time ) and almost none for my PS/2 one, makes me think about the powersaving options for USB, this can be debugged with PowerTop I guess
*mplayer2-fullscreen - almost no slowdown, it's not perfect but it's almost there
*mplayer1-full&window - almost no slowdown, it's not perfect but it's almost there
*Flash video even 1080p, 32bit version since the 64bit does not work ok/stable in Opera 64bit, accelerated display, accelerated decoding - no slowdown
Note that I'm using http://deb-multimedia.org/ builds of sm/mplayer so your results may vary.
Regarding FXAA:
Unigine Heaven 3.0
Render: opengl
Mode: 1920x1080
Shaders: high
Textures: high
Filter: trilinear
Anisotropy: 16x
Occlusion: enabled
Refraction: enabled
Volumetric: enabled
Tessellation: extreme
NoAA: FPS: 23.2 / Scores: 584 / Min FPS: 9.0 / Max FPS: 59.0
4xAA: FPS: 20.0 / Scores: 504 / Min FPS: 9.1 / Max FPS: 47.9
FXAA: FPS: 18.8 / Scores: 475 / Min FPS: 10.1 / Max FPS: 30.7
Strange... guess I'll retest with tess normal or something
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yup is has some issues.
AA (MSAA) off give 60FPS vsync which goes downto say 55 around HoN's water effect.
x8 AA gives ~ 40FPS which goes downto say 20 in big effects
FXAA give 20fps which goes downto like 6 when effects are going on
this is with a 9600 tho so I wonder if it isn't too good on older cards.
And as I mentioned the application override in nvidia-settings doesn't actually do that
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Originally posted by asdxFuck nvidia, and all the idiots who support them.
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Originally posted by Naib View Postyup is has some issues.
And as I mentioned the application override in nvidia-settings doesn't actually do that
So no Override for us, do file a bug report though, use the 'buton' reason
Then I tested with Tesselation Normal:
4xAA: FPS: 26.8 / Scores: 674 / Min FPS: 18.9 / Max FPS: 54.4
FXAA: FPS: 30.2 / Scores: 762 / Min FPS: 20.8 / Max FPS: 62.7
Looks like the shaders get hammered on Tess Xtreme and FXAA suffers...
That's one thing, and the other, since I can't stand tearing and since nVidia set Vsync ON by default in the newer drivers I tend to forget about it so my old tests (and this one above) where done with Vsync ON, so turning Vsync OFF with Tesselation Xtreme got me this:
4xAA: FPS: 19.4 / Scores: 488 / Min FPS: 10.8 / Max FPS: 46.4
FXAA: FPS: 21.5 / Scores: 542 / Min FPS: 11.5 / Max FPS: 54.0
Maybe this needs testing with some other programs too, Michael said he has an AA comparison in the works so he'll cover it better, also I'm pretty sick of starring at looping demos daaammmit.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostSo the user should be greeted with an X11 that doesn't start and it should be impossible to disable the open driver. Yey, what a great idea. You're a genius.
My idea is that they should release documentation for their hardware, so the nouveau folks can improve their driver. Work with the nouveau devs instead of blacklisting their driver. What do you have against that idea?
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