Re: Desktop graphics cards with working acceleration?
On 30.07.2020 04:11, Matthew Brooks wrote: Does anyone happen to know of any desktop graphics cards that have working acceleration for basic gaming (compatible with a PCI express x16 slot)? My laptop has an integrated intel card, so it can play basic stuff (Doom, etc.) just fine, but my desktop pretty much turns anything gaming related into a slideshow, despite it having far better specs, since my current card requires proprietary drivers for proper performance. I did a bit of internet searching, but didn't find any results that looked relevant. This question pops from time to time. See here: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-02/msg00212.html Due to promoting only free and libre software the problem with the hardware acceleration, video drivers and the binary BLOBS is not well documented. It's a separate discussion if and what should be described and documented. Best regards, zloster
Re: Desktop graphics cards with working acceleration?
Hello! Le Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:11:32 -0500, Matthew Brooks a écrit : > Does anyone happen to know of any desktop graphics cards that have > working acceleration for basic gaming (compatible with a PCI express > x16 slot)? My laptop has an integrated intel card, so it can play > basic stuff (Doom, etc.) just fine, but my desktop pretty much turns > anything gaming related into a slideshow, despite it having far > better specs, since my current card requires proprietary drivers for > proper performance. > > I did a bit of internet searching, but didn't find any results that > looked relevant. There is a database of libre-software-compatible hardware at , hosted by the Free Software Foundation. While it’s probably missing a lot of devices, searching for video cards with PCI-e interface and working 3D acceleration yields quite a few results¹, so you could look into those. Best wishes // Tirifto 1. https://h-node.org/videocards/catalogue/en/1/1/undef/undef/works_with_3D/PCI-E/video-card-works/undef
WebRTC seems broken in IceCat
Hello! I have installed IceCat with Guix on Parabola, but it seems like WebRTC isn’t working for me. I’ve tried making a call with Riot & Jitsi Meet, but haven’t succeeded with either. I also installed the Snowflake extension by Tor Project (which should make use of WebRTC), and it doesn’t seem to be doing anything, hence my impression. Has anyone had a similar experience? I asked around on IRC but haven’t been able to draw a conclusion. I just know it used to be working and advertised as such.¹ It’s recently been enabled upstream, too,² so I assume it’s supposed to work. I’ve noticed the flag ‘--disable-webrtc’ included in the IceDove package definition,³ which doesn’t seem like it should affect IceCat, though, so I wonder if the problem’s with my setup. For the record, ‘media.peerconnection.enabled’ is set to ‘true’ in ‘about:config’, and disabling my add-ons did not help. Any clues would be much appreciated. Best of wishes // Tirifto 1. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2019-08/msg5.html 2. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnuzilla.git/commit/?h=68&id=8f9f30e1e9cf2b411ce2747024d4f72edda86904 3. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/tree/gnu/packages/gnuzilla.scm#n1318
Re: Desktop graphics cards with working acceleration?
On 30.07.2020 14:07, Tirifto wrote: There is a database of libre-software-compatible hardware at , hosted by the Free Software Foundation. While it’s probably missing a lot of devices, searching for video cards with PCI-e interface and working 3D acceleration yields quite a few results¹, so you could look into those. Best wishes // Tirifto 1. https://h-node.org/videocards/catalogue/en/1/1/undef/undef/works_with_3D/PCI-E/video-card-works/undef The latest card there is from 2017: https://h-node.org/videocards/view/en/2024/Advanced-Micro-Devices--Inc---AMD-ATI--Ellesmere--Radeon-RX-470-480-570-570X-580-580X-/1/1/undef/2017/works_with_3D/PCI-E/video-card-works/undef An AMD card. The note says: "This card is supposed to be run with the AMDGPU driver which *depends on a binary firmware*." Best regards, zloster
Re: WebRTC seems broken in IceCat
I personally use the nix service. That lets me install firefox. It is currently only firefox 74, but jitsi works for me last I tried it. Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua Branson Sent from Emacs and Gnus
