That is interesting. Does anybody know which old GPUs will work with linux-libre. On my Talos II, I noticed that even old nvidia GPUs do not work, the POWER9 will shutdown the link to GPU. I guess only AMD and Intel CPUs will work, and maybe also the RK3399 which I was unable to test.
Alex On Wed, 2024-05-01 at 12:31 -0400, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > Hi, > > Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> writes: > > > Hi, > > > > When booting my Guix System with linux-libre 6.0.8, nouveau > > silently > > fails to render OpenGL. It includes symptoms such as: > > > > 1. Getting stuck on the GDM screen, which makes use of OpenGL > > 2. Not being able to use Qt5 or Qt6 applications, which renders via > > OpenGL. > > 3. the 'glxgears' program from mesa-utils displays frozen gears > > (not > > turning) > > > > My graphic card is an old nvidia 8800 GTS with 640 MiB of video > > RAM. > > > > Workaround: Adding the '(kernel linux-libre-5.15)' to my OS > > definition > > fixes it. > > I tried using linux-libre 6.8.8 today (Guix commit > df3d30819e650a490ef39dd6692740bb13263c75), which has Mesa 24.0.4, and > can no longer reproduce the problem described above. > > I'm thus happily closing this! >
