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death__machine

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Registered: 2011-03-04

Posts: 69

How to set res. of Console & any way to fix artifacts in game(nouveau)

I just removed the PATHETIC nvidia drivers and got nouveau for good. My compiz animations look great, the only game I have now is gltron which plays with a few artifacts.

Another thing is my console resolution has become my default resolution(1600x900) , so the font seems damn small in all the terminals. This stresses my eyes whenever I use the laptop on a table or some other situation.

Any way to fix the game artifacts? And how do I fix the artifacts in the game?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: How to set res. of Console & any way to fix artifacts in game(nouveau)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/KM … e_too_tiny

death__machine

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Registered: 2011-03-04

Posts: 69

Re: How to set res. of Console & any way to fix artifacts in game(nouveau)

Thank you, that worked. I changed the font to terminus. But theres no fix for the artifacts?

Mr.Elendig

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Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: How to set res. of Console & any way to fix artifacts in game(nouveau)

What card do you have?

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death__machine

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Registered: 2011-03-04

Posts: 69

Re: How to set res. of Console & any way to fix artifacts in game(nouveau)

Hi,
Sorry for replying late, I have a NVIDIA Geforce 8600M GT.

Mr.Elendig

#archlinux@freenode channel op

From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 4,092

Re: How to set res. of Console & any way to fix artifacts in game(nouveau)

I would strongly suggest using the nvidia driver instead with that card. More features, better speed, better powersaving. It is far from pathetic.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2011-08-30 23:44:59)

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death__machine

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Registered: 2011-03-04

Posts: 69

Re: How to set res. of Console & any way to fix artifacts in game(nouveau)

I have used the Nvidia drivers before, the problem is that X restarts/crashes randomly and I have not found any fix for that. It happens specially on battery-mode and all those crashes have been a pain when I was working on a presentation, then I got motivated to get rid of it and get back nouveau. And the Nvidia drivers have been crashing since the last 4-5 versions. I think the crashes happen because of the powermizer setting. If I keep that off, the thing is it resets, the setting never gets saved. Like there are two options in powermizer "adaptive" and "full-performance". If I keep the latter one and save it, after a crash when I check nvidia settings it would have switched back to adaptive.
After those crashes I've really hated them too badly. I get blue screens in windows too, cuz of the nvidia drivers there. And totally random blue-screens and during one specific game(DotA)
If I'm lucky I'll try to swap out this card for a AMD/ATI one in future.