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Originally posted by AdamW View PostFrom Ben Skeggs (nouveau developer at Red Hat):
"Well, nouveau uses the card at the performance level (so, voltage, clock speeds, fan level) that the video BIOS initialises it to. One would assume the VBIOS knows what its doing and programs the card to a safe configuration. And on every VBIOS I've seen, it programs the card to the lowest possible performance level.
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From Ben Skeggs (nouveau developer at Red Hat):
"Well, nouveau uses the card at the performance level (so, voltage, clock speeds, fan level) that the video BIOS initialises it to. One would assume the VBIOS knows what its doing and programs the card to a safe configuration. And on every VBIOS I've seen, it programs the card to the lowest possible performance level.
In any case, nouveau's in no different position to nv or vesa in that regard.
Aside from that, there's really nothing we can do at this point. With our current knowledge, we'd likely do more harm than good even attempting to control the GPU performance levels."
So, there's the story.
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Originally posted by Ant P. View PostNo, he's saying it lacks the downclocking workarounds required to prevent the chips physically falling off from heat stresses under normal load.
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Originally posted by [Knuckles] View PostI don?t really follow: are you saying that nouveau fries cards?
I?ve been testing nouveau with the fedora betas since f11 on my nvidia collection and had no such problems so far.
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Originally posted by [Knuckles] View PostI don?t really follow: are you saying that nouveau fries cards?
I?ve been testing nouveau with the fedora betas since f11 on my nvidia collection and had no such problems so far.
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Originally posted by V!NCENT View PostI'll tell you what happens when you install the proprietary nvidia driver: You'll get lame, half-baked workarounds for the later generation of nVidia cards so that the solicon doesn't get fried after a month long use.
If you decide to use the Nouveau driver anyway then I'd like to kindly advice you to get an ATI card somewhere around januari next year...
I?ve been testing nouveau with the fedora betas since f11 on my nvidia collection and had no such problems so far.
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Originally posted by [Knuckles] View PostThis comes to mind:
Anyway, what happens when you install the proprietary nvidia driver? Does KMS get disabled when the nvidia module gets loaded?
If you decide to use the Nouveau driver anyway then I'd like to kindly advice you to get an ATI card somewhere around januari next year...
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I don't think loading both nouveau and nvidia kernel modules will give desirable results.
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This comes to mind:
Anyway, what happens when you install the proprietary nvidia driver? Does KMS get disabled when the nvidia module gets loaded?
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