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Re: Changing hardware

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On 09/03/2022 04:31, Felix Miata wrote:

> Free drivers exist for NVidia GPUs too, nouveau for the GPU device driver,
> modesetting DIX and nouveau DDX to choose from for the display driver. The latter
> is old technology, reverse-engineered, and optional.

Free drivers are terrible to use if user wants hardware acceleration.
Clocks are not ramped up, because nouveau does not support re-clocking.
That means horrible performance, or crashes. I don't ever recommend, or
sometimes even mention, nouveau.
Disclaimer:
I use nouveau myself on my server for unaccelerated display purposes, I
know what I am doing. nouveau is stable and it only crashed about 2
times in last 2 years or non-stop operation, when used to display
desktop without any multimedia or browser usage.

But I will never recommend that to normal users who wants to use their
computer as a desktop machine with multimedia, 4K 60fps video, various
games, you name it.

>> nvidia-detect package: run nvidia-detect tool and it will tell you which
>> nvidia driver package you need to install to have proprietary driver for
>> your GPU.
>
> NVidia's proprietary drivers are optional, not required, so the extra nuisance of
> them, when installed, is self-imposed.

Extra nuisance is self-imposed on all modern Nvidia GPU users, because
they need to install and maintain non-free driver. If they don't do
that, they get this:
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-nouveau-2019&num=2

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With kindest regards, Piotr.

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Changing hardware James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> - 2022-03-09 00:10 +0100
  Re: Changing hardware piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-09 00:20 +0100
    Re: Changing hardware Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2022-03-09 05:40 +0100
      Re: Changing hardware piorunz <piorunz@gmx.com> - 2022-03-09 08:20 +0100
        Re: Changing hardware Anssi Saari <as@sci.fi> - 2022-03-09 10:30 +0100
          Re: Changing hardware James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> - 2022-03-10 14:40 +0100
  Re: Changing hardware Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2022-03-09 01:00 +0100

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