Hello everybody out there! Well, I just subscribed to this mailing list, so I guess I should introduce myself, at least giving relevant information about me concerning the development of Nouveau. You can call me a scientist, and I am doing simulation code. Therefore, my experience in coding is about high performance computing and scientific visualisation–and also about teaching. I have some ideas concerning material architectures, but I am not into system programming. Still, concerning system programming, I do know C and I have programmed in assembly, though these are not the languages I use the most in a daily basis. Well, my main computer has an NVidia GeForce 750 GPU, and I need video decoding as well as computing functionality. It turns out that for my particular GPU, Nouveau is not that good in these areas. So, I guess I should give a hand to Nouveau developers. Therefore, here is my questions: what is the help I can provide, knowing I am using Debian stable (Debian 9 Stretch at the time) with backports? As it is a production machine, I need it to stays usable and there are some other projects I should give some times. Best regards. -- Yoann LE BARS http://le-bars.net/yoann/ Diaspora* : ylebars at framasphere.org
On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 8:50 PM, Yoann LE BARS <yoann at le-bars.net> wrote:> > Hello everybody out there! > > Well, I just subscribed to this mailing list, so I guess I should > introduce myself, at least giving relevant information about me > concerning the development of Nouveau. > > You can call me a scientist, and I am doing simulation code. Therefore, > my experience in coding is about high performance computing and > scientific visualisation–and also about teaching. I have some ideas > concerning material architectures, but I am not into system programming. > Still, concerning system programming, I do know C and I have programmed > in assembly, though these are not the languages I use the most in a > daily basis. > > Well, my main computer has an NVidia GeForce 750 GPU, and I need video > decoding as well as computing functionality. It turns out that for my > particular GPU, Nouveau is not that good in these areas.Video decoding is not supported for Maxwell+. Not sure what you mean by "computing" functionality, but e.g. OpenGL's compute shaders should be reasonably well-supported on that GPU.> > So, I guess I should give a hand to Nouveau developers. Therefore, here > is my questions: what is the help I can provide, knowing I am using > Debian stable (Debian 9 Stretch at the time) with backports? As it is a > production machine, I need it to stays usable and there are some other > projects I should give some times.You should join us at #nouveau on irc.freenode.net to discuss further what some suitable projects might be. I've found that people fixing their own issues first is the best way to start in a project, since you end up with very concrete goals. -ilia
Hello everybody out there! Well, I forgot to actually answer to the mailing list. My apologies, Ilia. Le 18/06/2018 à 03:19, Ilia Mirkin a écrit :> Video decoding is not supported for Maxwell+.Indeed. This is one reason I guess I should try and give a hand.> Not sure what you mean > by "computing" functionality, but e.g. OpenGL's compute shaders should > be reasonably well-supported on that GPU.Yes, I did not express myself really clearly–forgive my being French. When I wrote “computing”, I meant using GPU to do general purpose computation, not only graphics. Quite common in high performance computing: using GPU as computing accelerators.> You should join us at #nouveau on irc.freenode.net to discuss further > what some suitable projects might be.I will try to connect to it latter today. Best regards. -- Yoann LE BARS http://le-bars.net/yoann/ Diaspora* : ylebars at framasphere.org
Hello everybody out there! I guess I should give some news. I am still using RT kernel on Debian stable + backports and have not found any way to install a working NVidia proprietary driver on this system. Therefore, I am so far not able to give any help to Nouveau development. Now, I am considering three strategies: • Switching to Archlinux, which has an installable Nvidia proprietary driver on RT kernel (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-rt/). • Waiting for RT kernel to be mainlined, which should happen soon (https://wiki.linuxfoundation.org/realtime/start). It may be the case before next Debian release. • I may build a new computer soon, which would probably use a Radeon GPU (then I will not use Nouveau). Anyway, I guess I should first ask some questions to the RT mailing-list, as I have subscribed to it. Best regards. -- Yoann LE BARS http://le-bars.net/yoann/ Diaspora* : ylebars at framasphere.org
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