![]() I would normally be completely against NVidia due to the closed source nature, but the Nouveau project and NVidia's attention to maintaining their binary drivers and features within Linux slightly rule-out this theology for now. I'm pro open source as it keeps the old hardware alive for us poor people and third world use. But, past history dictates once the kernel is modified or a newer version is released, newer kernel or X11/Xorg version could break the NVidia drivers leaving this function disable in future versions. On the other hand, ACPI and power saving features have matured slightly since the 1995 era and I find I can easily do "echo disk > /sys/power/state" (or mem) without issues. ![]() However, the NVidia binary drivers are not open source and still have a hiccup of not being able to put the monitor into DPMS when the NVidia binary driver is loaded and the user returns to the virtual terminal. ![]() I noticed unusual heavy CPU usage with the Nouveau drivers as of this date running glxgears. The performance difference is slightly improved using the Nvidia binary drivers. Since I utilize Gentoo, I found it still a good idea to stick with the theology of using an add-in video card. The only reason somebody would need a dedicated graphic card, is for OpenGL games with a strong vengence for getting the best frame rates (teeny bopper gamer) or somebody compiling code using "make -j5" incantations (a developer). An every day user would find the video performance extremely adequate and not need a dedicated video card to render graphics. Drivers are open source and within the Linux kernel and very stable as of this date. The Intel i7 CPU engineers engineered the onboard/in-cpu video extremely well. The reason for purchase, to off-load the video from the CPU.
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