On Fri, May 05, 2023 at 01:56:50PM -0500, Steven Kucharzyk wrote: > Nvidia does great support (on-line chat) don't remember if you need to > sign-up for free account or not but I say first hand that your talking > with an engineer who will answer *any* type question. I've been buying > Nvidia for twenty yrs. or more and have actually been to the site. > They're very customer centric, so much so that on saturdays they (did) > would give kids the opportunity to come in and play with experimental > setups. Even with Nouveau running you're going to need some parts of their > drivers. >From what I understand, nvidia supports their out of tree binary drivers. I'm not really interested in using them for a variety of reasons including the fact that I have no use for the chip on my laptop (I was forced to buy it) and I only need to power on the chip when I do HDMI or DP out. I know the nouveau driver isn't as good, but I only need it to do basic mirror display and power management (turn the chip off when I don't use it). It manages to do this on my P70, but not my P73 yet.
At this point I'm still trying to get confirmation of whether nouveau is supposed to work on my chip, or not yet, but it's been 2 years since my first post since I got this new laptop (then) and no luck yet. Marc -- "A mouse is a device used to point at the xterm you want to type in" - A.S.R. Home page: http://marc.merlins.org/ | PGP 7F55D5F27AAF9D08
