[lug] RHEL 6 Nouveau versus Nvidia for graphics

[Quentin Hartman]

In my experience, not on RHEL mind you, Nouveau "works", but is
generally slower than the proprietary drivers. I also believe (though
this may not be true) all the advanced CUDA and other processing
capabilities of the card are unavailable without the official drivers.

While I respect Nouveau from a philosophical standpoint, I've found
that I've always been better off just using the official drivers. That
said, it's been well over 2 years since I last played with them, so
things may have changed quite a lot in that time.

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Steven A Hart <shart at colorado.edu> wrote:
> I loaded up a new RHEL 6 system and by default the Nouveau graphics took
> control.  It looks accelerated but I'm worried about it handling higher end
> graphics.  The system uses a decent NVIDIA card.  Is the Nouveau graphics
> just as good, better, or worse than the drivers provided by NVIDIA?
>
> I'm not 100% familiar with the Nouveau graphics so thought someone here had
> more experience with it.
>
> This is not a gaming system but the graphics requirements are similar to
> that of a gaming system.
>
> Thanks
>
> Steve
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> Steve Hart
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