[OM Cooker] Use modesetting driver instead of intel and nouveau
Chris Tanner
christann404 at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 07:00:56 EST 2017
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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