On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 21:17 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 10/06/2016 03:27 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 06:33 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
I don't have a problem with Steam. As long as I use the Nvidia drivers it works perfectly well. My problem is with hibernation. See the thread starting at:
You mentioned problems with Steam under Nouveau. Sorting that means more people, including you, can use Nouveau. Sorting a problem involving Nvidia drivers is more likely to be an exercise in frustration since we aren't allowed to see big parts of the code that might be involved.
No doubt, but a) I'm not an expert on graphics drivers so realistically I can't contribute anything useful to the Nouveau project other than testing stuff, and b) the Nvidia hardware is proprietary and (I assume) incompletely documented. This is true of a lot of GPU chipsets. The proprietary drivers work better because they use undocumented features. Apparently
Sure, but the point George was making was that if you file a bug on Nouveau with the problems that you're having with Steam, maybe it could get fixed and you wouldn't have to worry about hibernating with the NVidia driver.
I understand that, however the issue isn't that Steam doesn't work, but that some FPS-type games are too laggy to be usable, i.e. the problem is performance rather than function. I may look into it at some point but for now I've just settled on using suspend instead of hibernate, and that works fine.
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