Post by Mike SmallPost by AragornBut so anyway, for now, 5.4 remains the most recent LTS kernel, and
if you have an older Nvidia graphics adapter and you need the
proprietary drivers — nouveau just isn't "there" yet — then sticking
with 5.10 is the path of least hassles.
^^^^
That should have read "5.4".
Post by Mike SmallPost by AragornI myself am not an Nvidia user — this system here has integrated
Intel graphics — but I've been running the 5.4 kernel from before it
was declared LTS, and it's a goodie. :)
Are people telling you that the Nouveau driver isn't adequate for
them?
Many are, yes, but then again, this is over at the Manjaro forum.
Manjaro seems to attract a lot of hardcore gamers — we supply our own
version of Steam, and it's installed by default.
CUDA is another reason why people want the proprietary driver. nouveau
doesn't support CUDA.
Post by Mike SmallIt's all I've used on my old Elitebook. Never tried the proprietary
driver figuring something like this would eventually happen. Granted,
I don't put the card through its paces, but I have the impression
that people aren't giving the Nouveau driver enough credit. The only
issues I've had were on NetBSD (yes, recent NetBSD has Nouveau, god
love em), where acceleration seemed not to work, but on Slackware it
seems flawless for my card.
Well, the project itself is commendable and deserves credit. After
all, the nouveau developers had to start from scratch, without any
support whatsoever from ever-invidious Nvidia.
Post by Mike SmallOh, well, I can say that when I upgraded Debian to Buster I saw sudden
slowness that made watching DVDs impossible, but I can't say if that
was a Nouveau problem or something else. Never properly diagnosed it
since it was impetus for switching back to my Slackware 14.2 partition
and remembering a preference for Slackware over Debian.
I don't think I've ever used nouveau myself. On the machines I had
which featured an Nvidia graphics adapter, I've always used the
proprietary driver, but my previous machine — which was a refurbished
box — had an onboard Radeon, which uses a GPL'd in-kernel driver, and
both this machine here and my laptop have integrated Intel graphics,
which of course also uses a GPL'd driver.
Post by Mike SmallI'm feeling a little nervous about the upgrade to 15.0, whether that
DVD playing slowness will happen there too, maybe being caused by
newer kernel behaviour. Also wondering if I will have to remember to
plug in my USB devices in the same slot every time to avoid getting
new device names like I had to on Debian, but maybe eudev didn't take
the unpredictably predictable device naming scheme from its mother
project.
Last time I looked into eudev — in my Gentoo days — it did indeed
feature the persistent naming scheme that upstream udev has, but in both
upstream udev and eudev, the behavior can be overridden, either by way
of a kernel boot parameter or by way of a udev rule; I'm not certain
which, but I do know that it can be done.
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With respect,
= Aragorn =