[Nouveau] Memory use and a few other things

[Stephane Marchesin]

On 4/2/08, Clemens Eisserer <linuxhippy at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  First of all thanks a lot for working on this free nvidia driver.
>
>  1.) I am using Fedora9-Beta, and on my NV17/64mb (or NV18?) powered
>  Laptop the nouveau driver uses about 300mb RAM. Is there any way I can
>  decrease that?
>

This is AGP memory. It's (usually 256MB of) memory mapped into X.Org,
and it's not actually used (only a small part of it for scratch
usage). All drivers making use of AGP do that.

>  2.) Font rendering is very slow. running "x11perf --aa10text" I only
>  get 40k glyphs/s.
>  Is there any way I can improve text performance?
>

Work on core EXA.

>  3.) I would like to downgrade to linux-2.6.16.60 - because a driver I
>  need was broken starting arround 2.6.19. Will it still make sence to
>  use nouveuau, or does it need DRI to work properly?
>

See Pekka's Answer.

Stephane