NVIDIA Lands X.Org Server Support For PRIME Render Offload On FreeBSD

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA Lands X.Org Server Support For PRIME Render Offload On FreeBSD

It's not too often I get to talk about major FreeBSD graphics driver improvements, but with the latest X.Org Server Git code paired with the recent NVIDIA proprietary graphics driver there is now support for PRIME render offload should you be using a multi-GPU setup on this BSD...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-FreeBSD-PRIME-Render

[curfew]

Nvidia 🤢 Xorg 🤢

[blacknova]

Nvidia 🤢 Xorg 🤢

You forgot FreeBSD! LOL. Chill out.

[MorrisS.]

End users need Wayland support.

[kpedersen]

End users need Wayland support.

FreeBSD does have Wayland support. But just like Linux there isn't enough choices for a decent compositor to replace many peoples favorite WM workflow yet (or ever?).

[sabian2008]

But doesn't Nvidia hate open source?

[MorrisS.]

FreeBSD does have Wayland support. But just like Linux there isn't enough choices for a decent compositor to replace many peoples favorite WM workflow yet (or ever?).

by Nvidia.

[kpedersen]

by Nvidia.

https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/wayland/

The current NVidia driver should work with most wl-roots compositors, but it may be a little unstable and not support all features at this time.

So pretty much on par with the experience on Linux.

[RejectModernity]

So pretty much on par with the experience on Linux.

Cope and seethe 😎

[kpedersen]

Cope and seethe 😎

Hah, hardly. I still think that X11 is going to win. FreeBSD doesn't need to rush getting this "mere distraction" Wayland stuff working.

Or at the very least, the Wayland ecosystem will actually have some decent compositors by the time it is working.

Don't settle for mediocracy