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2014 Jan 11
0
Should I dump my Nvidia card from the less known brand "Gainward"?
...58] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: memory controller reports 512MiB
VRAM
[ 2.132264] [drm] nouveau 0000:02:00.0: we calculated 1024MiB VRAM
* shortly after you're getting MEM_FAULT/IB_EMPTY errors (?related to
the actual amount of vram your card has?)
and last but not least
* you're using an _ancient_ kernel
Thus first and foremost I would advice that you experiment with various
kernels (older and newer) and (hopefully) you'll find one that does not
produce "PFIFO_DMA_PUSHER" style of messages.
You can easily check that even without X, just login in VT and look at
your dmesg outpu...
2014 Jan 10
3
Should I dump my Nvidia card from the less known brand "Gainward"?
Hi everyone.
I'm a big Free Software enthusiast and, therefore, I would very much like to use the nouveau free driver, instead of the proprietary one.
My problem is that, looking for the cheapest option available, when I needed to buy a new graphics card, 2 years ago, I decided for a model from a brand that I had never heard of - called "Gainward" - because I thought it had a