[OM Cooker] Use modesetting driver instead of intel and nouveau
Alexander Stefanov-Khryukin
nobodydead at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 13:52:44 EST 2017
>x11-driver-video-Z where Z is one of intel or nvidia
Is actual for radeon?
2017-01-03 21:34 GMT+03:00 Colin Close <itchka at compuserve.com>:
> Ok I have tested the modesetting driver and it seems to work fine on my
> NVidia kit.
> I ran glxgears -fullscreen and got 60 FPS the same test with the nouveau
> driver gave 36 FPS.
> It's definately better performing.
> During the tests I typed reboot from a root terminal a number of times and
> there
> was always a kernel crash irrespective of which driver was being used.
> There's a screenshot here:- https://drive.google.com/file/d/
> 0B0qGV0eSLYwHb0VQODI4MV91djVIR2RQclFCYmFROWRYSVpV/view?usp=sharing
> I wonder if it's related to the nouveau.
> Since no-one has a clue as to whats causing the nouveau bug I thought it
> might be
> worth someone more expert than me to take a look.
> Best,
> Colin
>
> On Tuesday, 3 January 2017 07:00:56 GMT Chris Tanner wrote:
> > I think that I am running the modesetting driver on an intel Xeon
> > E3-1200 v3 card. I couldn't find xorg.conf, but I did remove
> > x11-driver-video-intel and all appears to be working. Will keep testing
> it.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Chris
> > On 02/01/17 02:51 PM, Tomasz Paweł Gajc wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > due to last issues with freezing plasma and various "black" screen
> experience
> > > i call for obsoleting x11-driver-video-{intel,nouveau} to use
> built-in Xorg
> > > modesetting driver.
> > >
> > > How to use it ?
> > > - Make sure you are not using proprietary drivers for nVidia
> > > - Delete (or rename to something different) /etc/X11/xorg.conf
> > > - Make sure you have no "driver" snippets in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d
> > > - remove Xorg intel or nvidia drivers by running as root: rpm -e
> --nodeps
> > > x11-driver-video-Z where Z is one of intel or nvidia
> > >
> > > - restart your X
> > > - play some fullscreen 3D games
> > > - use Plasma with OpenGL features
> > >
> > > What are benefits of using modesetting ?
> > > - no custom drivers with barely maintained code
> > > - use GLAMOR for 2D acceleration based on OpenGL Mesa stack (https://
> > > en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_Server#GLAMOR)
> > > - well maintained driver
> > > - potentially no black screens and strange freezes
> > >
> > > Feedback really appreciated.
> > >
> > >
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