Nouveau - Oct 2021 - Nouveau on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

I am trying to get Nouveau running and also playing video.
lspci | grep VGA shows
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION] (rev a2)

syslog shows nouveau loaded

But video performance is SLOW - dropping frames.

have I missed something ?

How do I get better video performance ?

Thanks,

Jerry
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You can check the perf level your GPU is at, and potentially adjust it.

cat /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/pstate

This should give a list of levels like "xx: stuff", with the
"AC"
level being the current settings. Echo'ing any one of the xx's into
that file will attempt to switch to a different performance level.
Sometimes it works, other times it kills the GPU until you reboot. Use
with care.

Cheers,

  -ilia

On Fri, Oct 1, 2021 at 11:01 AM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I am trying to get Nouveau running and also playing video.
> lspci | grep VGA shows
> 03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [ION] (rev a2)
>
> syslog shows nouveau loaded
>
> But video performance is SLOW - dropping frames.
>
> have I missed something ?
>
> How do I get better video performance ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry