On Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 at 03:24, Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> wrote:
> On 2024-09-03 15:35:46 -0400, Sean MacLennan wrote: > > > On Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:54:36 +0000 > > stefan11111 stefan11111@shitposting.expert wrote: > > > > > I am using an nvidia gpu with the proprietary drivers, on xorg. > > > I use the proprietary drivers, because I found that the nouveau > > > drivers don't really work too well. > > > > How did the nouveau drivers not work well? I only use the nouveau > > drivers, and the only people I know who don't, it is because nvidia > > drivers are installed by default on Ubuntu. > > > I don't know about stefan11111, but in the past, I got various issues > with the nouveau drivers, and AFAIK, they were never fixed: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/issues/23 > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/issues/202 > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-nouveau/-/issues/534 > > The Nvidia proprietary drivers did not have such issues. > My two cents. We have a bunch of Xeon/NVIDIA Quadro T2000 Lenovo P1 machines on different distros and nouveau was pain on each of them. Proprietary drivers work flawlessly though on FreeBSD included. Best, Jakub
