nvidia driver quality decrease? - Page 2

johnc · 06-25-12, 10:25 AM

The heart of the problem is this...

NVIDIA has like, what, <50% of the desktop Linux market? And Linux has about 1% of the desktop market?

The numbers just aren't there.

As long as the graphics workstation folks and CUDA peeps are reasonably happy, it's hard to justify committing resources to other things.

Deanjo · 06-25-12, 07:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by welle

This is not a Windows graphics card and the nvidia linux support is not unoffical.

I guarantee you bought a windows card. Report a bug to your cards manufacturer. I guarantee you will get a "Sorry we only support windows." reply.

welle · 06-26-12, 05:26 AM

the quality of the nvidia linux driver is crap compared to the windows driver. Yesterday i compared nouveau with the nvidia blob and the nouveau driver works much better - animations in kde run smooth instead of stuttering . the only disadvantage is that svideo out doesnt work anymore

i think nvidia doesn't want to track the problems on a public bug tracker because it would show that the driver is full of bugs and with this "proof" they couldn't say that they provide high quality linux drivers and there is no need for an open source driver

Deanjo · 06-26-12, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by welle

the quality of the nvidia linux driver is crap compared to the windows driver. Yesterday i compared nouveau with the nvidia blob and the nouveau driver works much better - animations in kde run smooth instead of stuttering . the only disadvantage is that svideo out doesnt work anymore

i think nvidia doesn't want to track the problems on a public bug tracker because it would show that the driver is full of bugs and with this "proof" they couldn't say that they provide high quality linux drivers and there is no need for an open source driver

Complete opposite experience here. KDE smooth as silk with the blob and unusable with nouveau.

cthulhu · 06-26-12, 09:54 AM

The level of support in the nouveau driver differ greatly between different chip generations. The support for the newer Fermi chips is still not optimal.

johnc · 06-26-12, 10:03 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by welle

the quality of the nvidia linux driver is crap compared to the windows driver. Yesterday i compared nouveau with the nvidia blob and the nouveau driver works much better - animations in kde run smooth instead of stuttering . the only disadvantage is that svideo out doesnt work anymore

IME the nvidia driver doesn't up-clock fast enough for initial smooth animations. When left on the highest setting, animations are always smooth for me.

But if they're never smooth in your case, then there could be a bug somewhere.

06-25-12, 10:25 AM	#13
johnc Registered User Join Date: May 2011 Posts: 92	Re: nvidia driver quality decrease? The heart of the problem is this... NVIDIA has like, what, <50% of the desktop Linux market? And Linux has about 1% of the desktop market? The numbers just aren't there. As long as the graphics workstation folks and CUDA peeps are reasonably happy, it's hard to justify committing resources to other things.

06-26-12, 05:26 AM	#15
welle Registered User Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 16	Re: nvidia driver quality decrease? the quality of the nvidia linux driver is crap compared to the windows driver. Yesterday i compared nouveau with the nvidia blob and the nouveau driver works much better - animations in kde run smooth instead of stuttering . the only disadvantage is that svideo out doesnt work anymore i think nvidia doesn't want to track the problems on a public bug tracker because it would show that the driver is full of bugs and with this "proof" they couldn't say that they provide high quality linux drivers and there is no need for an open source driver

06-26-12, 09:54 AM	#17
cthulhu Great Old One Join Date: Sep 2002 Posts: 124	Re: nvidia driver quality decrease? The level of support in the nouveau driver differ greatly between different chip generations. The support for the newer Fermi chips is still not optimal. __________________ Desktop: Asus P5B Deluxe, Core2Duo E8500, 2GB Corsair 800MHz CL4, Gigabyte GTX460 1024MB HTPC: Asus P5B-E, Core2Duo 6300, 1GB Corsair 533MHz, Asus 9500GT w/ 512MB DDR3 Server: Gigabyte D510UD, Atom D510, 2GB Corsair 800MHz, Hauppauge NOVA-T500 dual DVB-T tuner, 4x 2TB Samsung F3EG (RAID5) Laptop: Asus U6V, Core2Duo P8400, 3GB DDR2, 9300M GS OS on all: Gentoo Linux Bought a computer bundled with windows? Don't want to use windows? Demand a refund!

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