On Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 at 03:24, Vincent Lefevre <vincent_AT_vinc17.net> wrote:
> On 2024-09-03 15:35:46 -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:54:36 +0000
> > stefan11111 stefan11111_AT_shitposting.expert wrote:
> >
> > > I am using an nvidia gpu with the proprietary drivers, on xorg.
> > > I use the proprietary drivers, because I found that the nouveau
> > > drivers don't really work too well.
> >
> > How did the nouveau drivers not work well? I only use the nouveau
> > drivers, and the only people I know who don't, it is because nvidia
> > drivers are installed by default on Ubuntu.
>
>
> I don't know about stefan11111, but in the past, I got various issues
> with the nouveau drivers, and AFAIK, they were never fixed:
>
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/issues/23
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/issues/202
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/issues/534
>
> The Nvidia proprietary drivers did not have such issues.
>
My two cents. We have a bunch of Xeon/NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Lenovo P1 machines on different distros and nouveau was pain on each of them. Proprietary drivers work flawlessly though on FreeBSD included.
Best,
Jakub
Received on Wed Sep 04 2024 - 13:39:52 CEST