I look forward to Nouveau able to handle decent HW acceleration on Maxwell, I don't care about game FPS, but at least a bit of power in Blender.
Eventually this stupid game by Nvidia will it cost they a lot! The day that AMD or Intel will do more powerful GPU than the Nvidia ones, suddenly Nvidia will be ten years in delay.
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Originally posted by xinorom View PostOriginally posted by DanLSee above (and lay off the Caps Lock).
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Originally posted by cybertraveler View PostReally cool stats.
A bit like Debian's popcon, it is fantastic in principle but us *nix folk tend to default to "off" when it comes to this stuff haha.
Originally posted by cybertraveler View PostThe only people supporting the development & integration of the NVIDIA blob are: (in order of care)
Don't get me wrong, it is unfortunately extremely useful because we have no Nouveau, the blob is pretty much the only solution we have for NVIDIA hardware. So begrudgingly I have to say that I am glad it is around (until we can make progress with Nouveau)
But I just don't understand why NVIDIA is providing it to us. What benefit is it to them? Is it perhaps an easy port from the Solaris build? Is there some heretic in the NVIDIA development department who is doing it as a labor of love? haha
One thing is for sure, I can honestly see it disappear within the next few years.
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Originally posted by kpedersen View PostI find this very interesting:
It shows that NVIDIA only has 30% of the marketshare. Nouveau is almost half 12.8%. The rest is AMD and (mostly) Intel.
Is this a viable source of data? This is quite incredible. Why does anyone even bother to write support for the binary NVIDIA blob? Barely anyone is using it.
As for your question: my guess is:
The only people supporting the development & integration of the NVIDIA blob are: (in order of care)- NVIDIA
- The user-friendly-focused distros (e.g. Ubuntu & Mint)
- Devs who actually explicitly want to support NVIDIA (e.g. because they need Cuda support or because they are working for a hardware company that doesn't care about Open Source philosophy & culture and opted to include an NVIDIA card in their product 'cos it was fastest).
- Devs who get bug reports from their users related to the NVIDIA blob and don't mind throwing in simple fixes, because they care about their users.
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I find this very interesting:
It shows that NVIDIA only has 30% of the marketshare. Nouveau is almost half 12.8%. The rest is AMD and (mostly) Intel.
Is this a viable source of data? This is quite incredible. Why does anyone even bother to write support for the binary NVIDIA blob? Barely anyone is using it.
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Originally posted by rogerx View PostWell, I might jump ship for AMD (open sourced well supported GPU) on my next graphics card purchase, if all future NVidia cards are crippled. Only problem, I'll have to migrate everything to EFI, as AMD card drivers specifically rely upon EFI/EUFI instead of MBR, else the drivers fail installing/working.
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Well, I might jump ship for AMD (open sourced well supported GPU) on my next graphics card purchase, if all future NVidia cards are crippled. Only problem, I'll have to migrate everything to EFI, as AMD card drivers specifically rely upon EFI/EUFI instead of MBR, else the drivers fail installing/working.
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Originally posted by mulenmar View PostSimilar deal with 9, except I got it working in less than a week... and finally managed to dig up the magic commands to tell DKMS that a new version had been installed, and that it needed to do its thing.
Code:apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms
Because APPARENTLY we can't even do THAT automatically.
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Originally posted by NotMine999 View PostNot sure why you have had those sorts of experiences with Linux. I know I can't reproduce your claims on the systems where I run the Nvidia blob.
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