But this is about the community Nouveau, not the Open Source driver from Nvidia. Nouveau works with the older cards too, but it is known to be not that performant and has some stability issues. I never used it, so this is not my personal experience at all, since I switched to AMD.
I am aware. Nouveau works okish with cards from the 800 series and older. It does only barely work with 900 and 1000 series cards, because of the firmware signing issue. You can check their page for compatibility information. And the new “open-source” driver only supports the RTX cards.
I really don’t know what you mean by the firmware signing issue. Searched the web and didn’t find a conclusive answer. There is this table: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html . What issues are to be expected using Nouveau on the 1070? Also is this an outdated issue maybe? Because the driver got some work over the years since the launch of the card too.
So what does firmware signing issue mean with the community Open Source drive? Can you point me to a source so I can read about it? I’m curious, because I think about reviving my old machine without using proprietary drivers.
I’m not that deep into it and as you noticed information on the issue is sparse. My understanding is that it is not possible to get power management working for these cards (see https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html). May not seem like a big deal, but as far as I understand this means the cards are stuck in the lowest power setting i.e. perform as well as an iGPU.
And from my understanding this is forced by Nvidia because power management is disabled when loading unsigned firmware.
That is my understanding of the situation. Due to this the devs basically gave up on those cards as it is unfixable.
Oh. I have seen in the FeatureMatrix list that the PowerManagement is not supported. I thought it was meant to be no “manual” management to switch the modes. Ok, if its stuck at lowest power, then its an issue. But maybe its not too bad, because I don’t want to game on that card anymore and the CPU does not have an integrated iGPU. So having the lowest power wouldn’t be even the worst thing to happen. But that is only my personal note here.
I just need to understand how much of crippling this actually is for real world usage. Guess I have to try and benchmark myself, just to see what it is capable of.
But this is about the community Nouveau, not the Open Source driver from Nvidia. Nouveau works with the older cards too, but it is known to be not that performant and has some stability issues. I never used it, so this is not my personal experience at all, since I switched to AMD.
I am aware. Nouveau works okish with cards from the 800 series and older. It does only barely work with 900 and 1000 series cards, because of the firmware signing issue. You can check their page for compatibility information. And the new “open-source” driver only supports the RTX cards.
I really don’t know what you mean by the firmware signing issue. Searched the web and didn’t find a conclusive answer. There is this table: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html . What issues are to be expected using Nouveau on the 1070? Also is this an outdated issue maybe? Because the driver got some work over the years since the launch of the card too.
So what does firmware signing issue mean with the community Open Source drive? Can you point me to a source so I can read about it? I’m curious, because I think about reviving my old machine without using proprietary drivers.
I’m not that deep into it and as you noticed information on the issue is sparse. My understanding is that it is not possible to get power management working for these cards (see https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/PowerManagement.html). May not seem like a big deal, but as far as I understand this means the cards are stuck in the lowest power setting i.e. perform as well as an iGPU.
And from my understanding this is forced by Nvidia because power management is disabled when loading unsigned firmware.
That is my understanding of the situation. Due to this the devs basically gave up on those cards as it is unfixable.
Oh. I have seen in the FeatureMatrix list that the PowerManagement is not supported. I thought it was meant to be no “manual” management to switch the modes. Ok, if its stuck at lowest power, then its an issue. But maybe its not too bad, because I don’t want to game on that card anymore and the CPU does not have an integrated iGPU. So having the lowest power wouldn’t be even the worst thing to happen. But that is only my personal note here.
I just need to understand how much of crippling this actually is for real world usage. Guess I have to try and benchmark myself, just to see what it is capable of.