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douglascast

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Registered: 2016-05-07

Posts: 22

Nouveau problems with videos

Hi all.

I've made a fresh arch install on my computer today and decided to use the Nouveau video driver to make usage of Wayland (considering Wayland its not a native resource on NVidia driver), in my thinking, it "should" avoid some problems to manage Wayland (problems with custom configurations in further updates).

By some reason I'm having two issues with my graphics card (at least I think its the VGA).

1. Wayland its kinda slow on Gnome, not unusable, but with a poor perfomance compared to default NVidia driver under X11.

2. I can't play "any" video, local files are slow and online videos (youtube, facebook) freeze the entire system.

Video card is classified like: Unknow on "about (the system)"

Arch Linux X64
Nouveau video driver
Gnome 3.26.1
Processor: Intel I5 5200
VGA: GTX 1060 6GB
Motherboard: B75M-D3H

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,754

Re: Nouveau problems with videos

That card is too new to have sensible nouveau support, you better stick with nvidia for the time being.