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    From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Mon Jun 1 23:16:42 2020


    I have discovered that I am running the nouveau driver.

    Is there a reasonably effortless way to switch to nvidia?

    regards
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    faeychild
    Running plasmashell 5.15.4 on 5.6.14-desktop-2.mga7 kernel.
    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Tue Jun 2 00:03:00 2020
    On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:16:42 -0400, faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

    I have discovered that I am running the nouveau driver.
    Is there a reasonably effortless way to switch to nvidia?

    If the video card is supported and the nonfree repositories enabled, running XFdrake (as root) should allow selecting the nvidia driver.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Tue Jun 2 06:52:42 2020
    On 2/6/20 9:03 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:
    On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:16:42 -0400, faeychild
    <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

    I have discovered that I am running the nouveau driver.
    Is there a reasonably effortless way to switch to nvidia?

    If the video card is supported and the nonfree repositories enabled,
    running
    XFdrake (as root) should allow selecting the nvidia driver.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins



    Thanks David.
    I currently have a process I can't interrupt so I'll run xfdrake later.

    NB Since several updates previous I have noticed occasional video
    corruption and flickering.

    I just blamed nvidia for a driver change without comparing driver
    versions. But something this morning made me wonder, and a check showed
    the nouveau module.

    I suppose I should have twigged earlier when I found the nvidia "tool"
    missing from the system tools menu. At the time I thought maybe it's deprecated.

    But then, sometimes two plus two can make five,

    but only for extremely large values of two

    regards

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    faeychild
    Running plasmashell 5.15.4 on 5.6.14-desktop-2.mga7 kernel.
    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Tue Jun 2 09:38:02 2020
    On 2/6/20 3:52 pm, faeychild wrote:
    On 2/6/20 9:03 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:
    On Mon, 01 Jun 2020 18:16:42 -0400, faeychild
    <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

    I have discovered that I am running the nouveau driver.
    Is there a reasonably effortless way to switch to nvidia?

    If the video card is supported and the nonfree repositories enabled,
    running
    XFdrake (as root) should allow selecting the nvidia driver.


    It worked well, David. Thanks


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    faeychild
    Running plasmashell 5.15.4 on 5.6.14-desktop-2.mga7 kernel.
    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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