Re: Nvidia legacy driver install..

[tony mollica <tjm3@threedogs.net>]

I got tired of the frequent screen lock-ups that pointed towards the 
nouveau driver, at least so far as I can tell by the hundreds of nouveau 
errors and segfaults in the logs, so I did the 
nvidia-legacy-304xx-driver install that was recommended by the 
nvidia-detect app.  I did do a bit of research, including the debian 
wiki, to verify the pre-reqs were already in place and ran the install. 
Before I did I placed all of the former and known working xorg.conf 
files in an easy to access location, just in case.

The report is short.  It worked perfectly, visually looks better and my 
gauge is that it got rid of most of the choppiness in GEpro.  Much 
better.  It auto-configged to HD resolution.


tony


On 07/05/2017 05:07 PM, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> On 07/05/2017 07:37 AM, tony mollica wrote:
> > Thanks for all the input on this.  I had originally planned to wait as
> > long as possible to install the Nvidia stuff, but I think now that I'll
> > give it a try when I get some time.  No reports of breaking the  system
> > permanently and only a  couple of relatively minor issues.  There seems
> > to be a performance advantage with Nvidia's drivers that I can notice
> > between my nivida/wheezy and nouveau/stretch installs.
> >
> > tony
>
>
> Both ATI and Nvidia are superior performers, it can be hard to tell
> unless you put them side by side as I have, I've seen the difference.
>
> Good luck with your install,