Nouveau Reviews and details

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• Tinygrad: Hacked 4090 driver to enable P2P

  > then I don't know what counts as "suboptimal non-default options". Boy oh boy do I have a bridge to sell you: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago

• Red Hat to Author New Linux Driver for Nvidia GPUs in Rust

  The chances of getting Nouveau working well on older Nvidia hardware are essentially zero. There are legal issues with firmware redistribution. > Little hope of reclocking becoming available for GM20x, GP10x and GV100 as firmware now needs to be signed by NVIDIA to have the necessary access From https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• Working implementations of NVIDIA graphics drivers?

  I have just finished switching from normal VGA to VESA for my OS MaxOS. And although this will be far away in the future, I do hope to not only have a 1080p display but also working on the hardware of my main machine. So I began looking at the wiki and found the https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ project that aims to implement open-source NVIDIA drivers and was wondering if there were any hobby OSes that you know... Source: 6 months ago

• Black screen after grub, please help

  If that doesnt work you could also look at the Nouveau driver: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ which should work with this card. Source: 10 months ago

• How many flavors of NVIDIA drivers are there?

  The drivers that contain 'xorg' or 'nouveau' in the name are non-proprietary, or free, or open-source drivers. They are maintained by freedesktop.org. Source: 11 months ago

• non english thread

  Nouveau open source nvidia drivers (gnu/linux reference). Source: about 1 year ago

• i ja e these two screens, it starts as just the logo and when i Press ESC on my keyboard it gives me this list of errors. i have left it for hours and at some points it stops. but it dorsnt turn on. does anyone know how to resolve this?

  The Nouveau driver is the open source one. It would be best to report the error to them (curiously, their website is blown up at the moment! https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ ). Source: about 1 year ago

• Dodge Will Completely Control Performance Upgrades on Its EVs

  I don't know. Firmware can be cryptographically signed. Some anti-tamper devices even burn physical fuses. A car is expensive to brick, so not a lot of people would play around with it. For instance, here's what free-software devs say about nVidia drivers: "Little hope of reclocking becoming available for GM20x and newer GPUs as firmware now needs to be signed by NVIDIA to have the necessary access."... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• How good is the new open source driver stack for new Nvidia GPU's?

  Nouveau? AFAIK still way behind both proprietary Nvidia, AMD and Intel. Source: over 1 year ago

• Pop OS on mid 2009 MacBook Pro: Nvidia driver issue

  Thanks for the suggestion. And how do I get an older driver's release? I also don't think it's supported anymore. According to this page, it's a GeForce 9400M. However, if I understand correctly, the open-source driver Nouveau should support most cards. Source: over 1 year ago

• Desktop GPU + PCIe + MPsoc

  If you want something 'smarter' ('faster'), then it's a lot more complex. Commercial GPUs require extremely complex driver to support all their features, and are not (well) documented. There's some open-source drivers like nouveau (for NVidia devices) or amdgpu) (for AMD devices) available, and those are very complex pieces of software. And you need the entire Linux/X11 stack on top of them. Source: over 1 year ago

• What happened in IoT this April? Here are some headlines I found interesting from last month

  Back in the day, Linux developers wishing to steer clear of NVIDIA's proprietary stack reverse-engineered its GPU features into what was named the Nouveau project. Much has changed since Linus snubbed NVIDIA in 2012 for hiding from the FOSS world. A couple of years later, the chipmaker provided significant technical guidance and was involved in architectural changes to Nouveau to support the GK20A GPU for Tegra K1... Source: almost 2 years ago

• Nvidia Hacked – A National Security Disaster

  We already have the open source nouveau drivers, but the hacking of nvidia isn't going to improve them and isn't welcomed by the nouveau developers. https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Lapsus$, the organization that recently hacked NVIDIA and released data about the company, is demanding NVIDIA open-source its drivers.

  Like others have said, hackers releasing the code does not make it open source and in fact would make things much worse for Nouveau. Source: about 2 years ago

• holy shit

  Now you can't Tivo a video card. Video cards don't run operating systems. They do already require a signed blob. Always have. It's part of what prevents the nouveau from having full features on the newer cards. https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/. Source: about 2 years ago

• I'm tired of NVIDIA...

  So if you go to https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/ you can see this:. Source: about 2 years ago

• Writing an open source GPU driver – without the hardware

  > Has anyone traced the initialization of the NVIDIA binary driver and figured out what is so special for reclocking and/or reproduced it without the binary driver? From what I understand [1], the chip itself will check if the running firmware has been signed by NVIDIA and refuse to run at higher clock speeds if not. [1]: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Which nvidia driver (proprietary/open source) should I install for normal use?

  And the nouveau project has or had the goal to build high-quality, free/libre software drivers for nVidia cards (https://nouveau.freedesktop.org). Source: about 2 years ago

• NVIDIA 510.39.01 Linux Beta Brings Vulkan Dynamic Rendering, AV1 VDPAU Decode & More

  No. Nouveau devs. That's 2 things you're lying about now. Source: over 2 years ago

• Intel Core i5 10th gen - will Tails ever work with it?

  AMD makes their own open source drivers which can be included in projects like Tails, so support for them is much better. Also the open source Nouveau project are developing open source support for Nvidia cards and you can see what cards they support on their site. Tails includes these drivers as they are the only available ones for a project which relies and requires open source. Source: over 2 years ago

• Theoretically, would a modern AMD GPU work with a libre kernel?

  Sorry I'm on a bit of rant about Nvidia, but I've seen so many people over the years on posts trying to get their Nvidia video cards working under Linux or *BSD or complaining that the Nvidia drivers are not included when they did an install and why doesn't the distribution make it easier. This should be turned around and people should be approaching Nvidia for support instead and getting them to cooperate with... Source: over 2 years ago