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   Marco Moock to All   
   Re: Perforrmance of Nouveau drivers unde   
   09 Feb 22 08:37:43   
   
   From: mo01@posteo.de   
      
   Am Dienstag, 08. Februar 2022, um 20:40:40 Uhr schrieb John Smith:   
      
   > 	I have an old PC with an NVidia graphics card running 14.2. I   
   > use the NVidia proprietary drivers for this card on this PC without   
   > any problems. However, transitioning to 15.0 and the 5.* kernels, the   
   > guys from NVidia tell me that there are no NVidia drivers for my   
   > particular NVidia card when such drivers are used. Which implies I'll   
   > have to use the Nouveau driver.   
   >   
   > 	Anybody have experience with this driver under Slackware? I   
   > am thinking about 3D applications - like e.g. google-earth, or the 3D   
   > hacks in xscreensaver. Do they run at all? If they do, do they   
   > perform tolerably, or are they like trickle?   
   >   
   > 	I might just have to bite the bullet and get a new card (or   
   > maybe even a new PC) but I would be interested to learn about the   
   > experience of other Slackware users in this respect.   
      
   Please tell us which card you exactly have.   
   The look at the feature matrix:   
   https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html   
      
   If you plan to buy /already have an ATI/AMD for replacement, see here:   
   https://www.x.org/wiki/RadeonFeature/   
      
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