Hi Martin, Depends what your expectations are. Nouveau is missing a number of features of the blob, the most important of which is probably stability. Whether you run into instability or not depends a lot on the software that you use, so you'll just have to find out for yourself if it works well for you or not. Personally, I have multi-month uptimes with it. But others struggle to stay up for an hour. With GK106, you should have manual reclocking, which should enable you to achieve ~50-80% of blob performance, if that's a concern for you. You won't get Vulkan nor H.264 hardware encoding. Cheers, -ilia On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 11:55 AM Martin Knoblauch <knobi at knobisoft.de> wrote:> > Hi, > > for years I have been running my DELL M4800 Laptop under Linux with the proprietary drivers from NV. Finally I am kind of sick of recompiling those drivers every time I upgrade the Kernel. > > So, my question is: is there any chance to operate a GK106GLM using nouveau.ko? > > Sorry if this has been asked before. > > Cheers > Martin > -- > ------------------------------------------------------ > Martin Knoblauch > email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de > www: http://www.knobisoft.de
Martin Knoblauch
2022-Mar-14 21:30 UTC
[Nouveau] Nvidia GK106GLM (Quadro K2100M) with Nouveau
On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 7:45 PM Ilia Mirkin <imirkin at alum.mit.edu> wrote:> > Hi Martin, > > Depends what your expectations are. Nouveau is missing a number of > features of the blob, the most important of which is probably > stability. Whether you run into instability or not depends a lot on > the software that you use, so you'll just have to find out for > yourself if it works well for you or not. Personally, I have > multi-month uptimes with it. But others struggle to stay up for an > hour. > > With GK106, you should have manual reclocking, which should enable you > to achieve ~50-80% of blob performance, if that's a concern for you. > You won't get Vulkan nor H.264 hardware encoding. > > Cheers, > > -ilia >Hi Ilia, most of my expectations would be met, if I were able to get a decent resolution from the GK106. As it is the card is not recognized, and it falls back to VESA with 1280x1024 which is pathetic. I have not much need or expectation on speed. Cheers Martin> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 11:55 AM Martin Knoblauch <knobi at knobisoft.de> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > for years I have been running my DELL M4800 Laptop under Linux with the proprietary drivers from NV. Finally I am kind of sick of recompiling those drivers every time I upgrade the Kernel. > > > > So, my question is: is there any chance to operate a GK106GLM using nouveau.ko? > > > > Sorry if this has been asked before. > > > > Cheers > > Martin > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------ > > Martin Knoblauch > > email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de > > www: http://www.knobisoft.de-- ------------------------------------------------------ Martin Knoblauch email: k n o b i AT knobisoft DOT de www: http://www.knobisoft.de