On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 01:13:59PM -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 11:21 AM Douglas R. Reno <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
> The underlying cause of the problem is the Nouveau graphics driver. Nouveau
> does not support the NVIDIA GeForce GT1030 that I had in this system. I do
> not know what other cards are affected by this, but I suspect that anything
> from the 900-series onwards has a problem with Nouveau. I could have
> installed the NVIDIA proprietary driver (assuming that I have all of the
> dependencies - and I think it needs CUDA, so I definitely don't if that's
> the case). I figured this out after doing a 'dmesg' and then checking
> glxinfo to find out that the NVIDIA card was using a generic framebuffer
> and was using software acceleration in X. However, running Cheese and
> gst-inspect-1.0 ran just fine in Weston (which I built just to experiment).
>
> I lost patience and put the GT 630 that I had in my previous workstation
> into this one. It's a rather nasty decrease in graphics capabilities (two
> versions of OpenGL), but it will suffice until I can replace this card with
> an AMD of some kind. It's not worth the hassle of fiddling with proprietary
> drivers.
>
> - Doug
Hi Doug,
glad you've worked around it. From googling, it seems that the
GT1030 is newer than the last (Pascal?) firmware which was made
available. Unfortunately, modern nvidia cards cannot be recommended
for those of us who want to use non-proprietary drivers.
ĸen
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