The unthinkable has happened: Nvidia has finally embraced open-source GPU drivers
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They don't support any of my Nvidia graphics cards so as far as I'm concerned Nvidia still sucks and always will.
I need the 340-108 proprietary Nvidia driver.
The newer Linux kernels no longer support for the Nvidia 340-108 driver.
I need the 340-108 proprietary Nvidia driver.
The newer Linux kernels no longer support for the Nvidia 340-108 driver.
Well like the saying goes - Better Late Then Never -
So you are a penguin?
Uh-huh. Same for me; neither of my Nvidia cards are supported by the current drivers any longer.
On the HP desktop rig:-
- For 32-bit Pups, 390.147 is the newest they can handle
- For 64-bit Pups, I can go up as far as 470.199.02.....but no further
On the Lat, like you I have to settle for 340.108....
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Shinobar's "getNvidia" utility makes installing the official drivers a breeze for us. But there IS one advantage of running an unsupported card in Puppy; once you've installed the most up-to-date driver, you can forget about it.......because unlike all other distros that regularly update and change everything 'in situ', with our Pup nothing changes (unless the user manually makes changes themselves).
And although there's no such thing as 100% bulletproof, Puppy's native run-time model comes pretty close to it.......especially with everything but the 'save' loading into RAM from read-only files, which can then be removed once up-and-running (easy when running from USB, not so easy from an internal drive.....but can be achieved by a judicious, well-known edit to the initrd.gz).....
....and if you think you might have caught summat 'nasty' during a session, don't save it; just let it evaporate into cyberspace.
Mike.
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I've never had any issues with Nvidia but I recently switched to an AMD gpu, I'll be sticking to that as well, I guess I was using Nvidia for so long because of good marketing lol. As long as there aren't Nvidia drivers in the kernel that support modern gaming for current gpu's I won't consider it opensource enough.
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Windows is where all of my Nvidia graphics cards are still fully supported and I understand why.
Using Puppy Linux makes a lot of stuff in Linux a lot more useful sometimes for awhile longer anyway.Uh-huh. Same for me; neither of my Nvidia cards are supported by the current drivers any longer.
On the HP desktop rig:-
- For 32-bit Pups, 390.147 is the newest they can handle
- For 64-bit Pups, I can go up as far as 470.199.02.....but no further
On the Lat, like you I have to settle for 340.108....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Shinobar's "getNvidia" utility makes installing the official drivers a breeze for us. But there IS one advantage of running an unsupported card in Puppy; once you've installed the most up-to-date driver, you can forget about it.......because unlike all other distros that regularly update and change everything 'in situ', with our Pup nothing changes (unless the user manually makes changes themselves).
And although there's no such thing as 100% bulletproof, Puppy's native run-time model comes pretty close to it.......especially with everything but the 'save' loading from read-only files, which can then be removed once up-and-running (easy when running from USB, not so easy from an internal drive.....but can be achieved by a judicious, well-known edit to the initrd.gz).
Mike.
I like the fact that kernel updates sometimes still support some of the needed proprietary drivers.
Another plus is new kernel updates don't come along and all of the sudden no longer support hardware as in most mainstream Linux distros.
Yep Puppy Linux rules imo.
It's good news for those who have newer Nvidia graphics cards but not for us who still use older Nvidia graphics cards.It good news for those using Nvidia card. My needs are limited and I don't do much gaming so it won't affect me too much.
But always good to see a firm going open source.
Nouveau open source graphics driver works good for most non graphics intensive stuff.
Try to run Linux "Flight Gear Flight Simulator" using Nouveau open source graphics driver it really sucks.
CaffeineAddict
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I just reinstalled newer driver and there was choice to install open source version, I got confused and choose to install proprietary driver because didn't want to break anything.
developer.nvidia.com
So I'm not going to use it for now, but, I think this will help wayland devs finally fix the problems?
NVIDIA Releases Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules | NVIDIA Technical Blog
The first open-source release of GPU kernel modules for the Linux community helps improve NVIDIA GPU driver quality and security.
developer.nvidia.com
So I'm not going to use it for now, but, I think this will help wayland devs finally fix the problems?
To be honest, this isn't such a big step for Nvidia anyway. They might charge an arm and a leg for the top-end cards, but the drivers have always been free to download & install. And this isn't totally unexpected; it was announced quite a while ago.....the only uncertainty was with regard to when they'd enact this change.
Nice to see they've kept their word.
Mike.
Nice to see they've kept their word.
Mike.
