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Anyone know if there will be a binary Nvidia driver for FreeBSD 13.0? I bought a cheap Nvidia GPU for my FreeBSD rig because it is the best supported on that platform but I'm F***ed if they ever decide to stop supporting FreeBSD!
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Originally posted by bug77 View PostActually, open source is exactly why AMD can't implement an equivalent feature. The drivers being open to modification, anyone can comment out any protections.
(Still, open source > closed source, but open also has its drawbacks.)
Are we now starting intentional crippling a feature?
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Originally posted by bug77 View Post
Actually, open source is exactly why AMD can't implement an equivalent feature. The drivers being open to modification, anyone can comment out any protections.
(Still, open source > closed source, but open also has its drawbacks.)
Why would I want a driver that gimps my hardware?
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Originally posted by Templar82 View Post
What a crazy 'feature' for a driver.
This is why open source is so important.
(Still, open source > closed source, but open also has its drawbacks.)
Originally posted by fafreeman View Post
i'm confused. people on reddit claim that 1337 hackers bypassed the limiters, but this is saying 1337 hackers didn't, rather that nvidia's incompetence left out the limiters in a driver that was released by "accident." so what's true?
Nobody bypassed the protection, the claims were proven to be running other hashing algorithms, that's why the card were reporting more MH/s than expected.
This leaked driver indeed lacked part of the protection, but it was an internal beta (supposedly geared towards testing OpenCL under WSL), so it's pretty buggy and doesn't even work right on all cards.
A blunder on Nvidia's part, but not as monumental as the tech press would have you believe.
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Originally posted by Templar82 View Post
What a crazy 'feature' for a driver.
This is why open source is so important.
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Originally posted by bug77 View PostThat driver doesn't seem to work in most mining scenarios: https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-c...-rate-limitier
It still requires cards inserted directly into the motherboard.
This is why open source is so important.
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Originally posted by phoronix View PostPhoronix: NVIDIA 460.67 Linux Driver Brings A Few Fixes, 5.11 Kernel Compatibility
While we are very eager to see the NVIDIA 470 series Linux driver for at least having Wayland / DMA-BUF support improvements and OpenGL 3.0 support, for now the NVIDIA 460 series is the latest public stable series and today was updated to v460.67...
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pa...7-Linux-Driver
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Originally posted by ix900 View PostYou don't actually need this for 5.11 unless of course you run into an issue. Older driver worked for me fine. Installed this one anyway.
Originally posted by mikus View PostProbably just hurrying to block the fact they negated their whole new platforms that hobbled cryptomining, trying to put some GPU's into the hands of desktop users and gamers by adding the cryptohash limiters in drivers. Too bad all the cryptominers will already be buying these up with botnets and will just use their broken driver indefinitely.
It still requires cards inserted directly into the motherboard.
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