On 06/01/15 20:32, poma wrote:
On 06.01.2015 09:33, Stephen Morris wrote:
> My experience with the proprietary driver and nouveau driver using an
> Nvidia Geforce GTX 650 graphics card and KDE is that compared to the
> proprietary driver the nouveau driver is horribly slow. I have on
> occasion had to use the nouveau driver when I have updated the kernel
> and there wasn't a corresponding proprietary driver, in all versions of
> fedora F18 to F21, and the system was extremely sluggish with the
> nouveau driver. Even opening the Kmenu in the task bar was extremely
> slow. I have in the past also tried to run Tux Racer under the nouveau
> driver and it was completely unusable. I didn't validate exactly what
> sort of performance the nouveau driver was providing, but the impression
> from trying to play the game was that it would be lucky if the driver
> was giving 1 FPS frame rate.
Perhaps that NVE7 missing firmware for acceleration?
> Consequently my recommendation would be for anyone with an Nvidia card
> to always use the proprietary driver. In fact, in my opinion, Fedora are
> doing users a grave dis-service by not providing/supporting the
> proprietary driver in their standard repositories like the other 2
> distros I am familiar with using (Ubuntu and Mandriva).
>
> regards,
> Steve
>
Are you intentionally trying to play ignorant here?
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Forbidden_items?rd=ForbiddenItems#NVIDIA
...
The NVIDIA graphics drivers are proprietary, and many kernel developers consider this
driver to violate the GPL license of the kernel. Fedora does not include proprietary
software.
...
Until a couple of years or more ago I would have agreed but I have been
using Nouveau in Ubuntu and Fedora with Nvidia GT8600 graphics card for
everything. Nouveau works a treat except for high intensity rendering 3D
graphics with Blender.
I have not used KDE for 10 years or more because it was slow then and I
believe, from watching others, nothing has changed.
May I suggest something other than KDE and see if there is a difference.
Roger