Nouveau Still Pushing Forward In 2020 Thanks To Red Hat But Community Developers Leaving

[rogerx]

Yeah, I've even used that same RX 460 a little while on a motherboard that has old fashioned BIOS so it should work without issues on Linux. To be exact I had GPT partioning although I didn't have UEFI (BIOS will read the bootloader from MBR just fine). It's also a combination that wouldn't work with Windows.

The MSI RX460 2G is the piece of hardware purchased here. Probably a nice graphics card, just isn't nice to find-out about the non-compatbility with MBR, requiring EFI booting.

[NotMine999]

You don't have to advertise to people that you are willfully ignorant and stupid.

Nor do you need to post how incompetent you are at getting something to work on Linux that "basically works out of the box".

[brad0]

Nor do you need to post how incompetent you are at getting something to work on Linux that "basically works out of the box".

I feel bad for how mentally retarded you are.

[rmoog]

I feel that the proprietary driver should be used by default on installation.

This is demonstrably wrong! Can you even begin to imagine what kind of legal issues this creates? The binary nVidia driver is released under nVidia's EULA and therefore it is not compliant with the rest of the system from a distrubutor's POV. Canonical and RedHat would have to put up EULA acceptance forms before letting users download images of their distros. Failure to comply with this requirement would result in legal action from nVidia.

[mulenmar]

Since when did this become magic?:

apt-get install nvidia-kernel-dkms

See above (and lay off the Caps Lock).

Yeah, the guides didn't mention that package or command.

And lay off the snark, you're bad at it. Two words don't a "riding the Caps Lock" make.

[DanL]

Yeah, the guides didn't mention that package or command.

And lay off the snark, you're bad at it. Two words don't a "riding the Caps Lock" make.

*Shrug* Caps Lock offends my eyes when I'm skimming/speedreading.

[Microred]

Thanks to Red hat, from 5.6, my GTX 1050 TI and RTX 2080 TI will not work with nouveau unless a firmware blob is load by kernel.

Linux user : "Let's be nice with Redhat and let's load some blob to make those GPU work nicely with their open source drivers :"

kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266362] nvkm_vmm_iter.constprop.0+0x362/0x7e0 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266377] ? nvkm_vmm_map_choose+0x80/0x80 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266393] ? gf100_vmm_invalidate_pdb+0x30/0x30 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266408] nvkm_vmm_ptes_unmap_put+0x4e/0x70 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266423] ? nvkm_vmm_map_choose+0x80/0x80 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266438] ? gf100_vmm_invalidate_pdb+0x30/0x30 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266453] nvkm_vmm_put_locked+0x1c5/0x210 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266467] nvkm_vmm_put+0x2b/0x50 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266482] nv50_instobj_dtor+0xa4/0xe0 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266489] nvkm_memory_unref+0x42/0x60 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266504] nvkm_mmu_ptc_put+0x103/0x170 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266519] nvkm_vmm_unref+0x172/0x1c0 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266534] nvkm_uvmm_dtor+0xf/0x20 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266543] nvkm_object_dtor+0xb3/0x100 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266551] nvkm_object_del+0x1c/0x80 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266559] nvkm_ioctl_del+0x33/0x50 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266567] nvkm_ioctl+0xe2/0x180 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266574] nvif_object_fini+0x57/0x80 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266589] nouveau_vmm_fini+0xd/0x20 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266603] nouveau_cli_fini+0x43/0x90 [nouveau]
kern.log:Apr 8 08:03:19 localhost kernel: [ 75.266617] nouveau_drm_postclose+0x9f/0xd0 [nouveau]

Linux user : "Ho damn, hard to debug when blob are involved, how can I fix it ?"

RedHat dev : "Don't panic ! You can subscribe to Red Hat pro"

Thanks them if you want, but do not bind Redhat with opensource.

RedHat dev : "No it is not in our agenda to work with the opensource community"