I can’t think of anything that one would want to run in dom0 that needs Nvidia. In general, the only software that should be run from dom0 is to manage the system. If you find yourself typing something on a dom0 window that isn’t straight out of the Qubes docs. Stop and think and be sure that what you are about to do could not open an attack vector. Not probably won’t not I doubt it. Could not. This assumes you are using Qubes to provide the most secure environment you reasonably can. If you don’t care about that and just want to play with stuff, go for it. One might question the choice of Qubes to play with if that were the case...
You can learn about how Linux handles drivers in general and Nvidia proprietary drivers for you Nvidia GPU in particular, by installing your favorite Linux distro and start Googling. There is a lot of material out there. I know because I read a lot of it due to dumbass problems I encountered running Linux with an Nvidia driver on a dual monitor setup. I found that Pop! OS 18.10 comes with the best GeForce support out of the box if you install their Nvidia native version. Unless you need CUDA and have a Quadro, not a gaming GPU like the GeForce or RTX line, there are few good reasons to run Linux on Nvidia. Best support is Intel embedded GPU for typical Linux use cases. My Intel Core i7 7820X doesn’t have a built in GPU and that box was built for gaming before I thought to run Linux on it, so I payed the price of wasting time getting it to work reasonably well. If I were choosing hardware for Linux, Ndidia would be the first thing to be removed from consideration (unless I was mining cryptocurrency and then I would have Quadro on the list) On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 8:47 AM seshu <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thursday, December 27, 2018 at 7:15:36 PM UTC-7, John Smiley wrote: > > I have a 1080 Ti in one of my Qubes boxes and haven't had any trouble > with the out-of-the-box install with 4.0.1-rc2. This box is dual boot to > Win10 when I want to play games (it was a gaming rig before it was a Qubes > box). May I ask what you need to do that requires the Nividia driver? > > It's not that I have a specific need. As you mention, the default nouveau > driver is working fine. I'm not a gamer etc. I have noticed that when i'm > watching a streaming movie and i'm scrolling in another window it does > affect the movie that is being streamed. > > So, I'm simply trying to learn more about how drivers work, how they are > installed or handled on linux systems, etc. In the future, I may want to > have a desktop or laptop system that uses the workstation graphics cards, > as some of the work I do could benefit from that. And those cards are more > effective with proper drivers, etc. So, I'm just using this time of testing > and getting to know the release candidate qubes. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "qubes-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/acc21710-c847-4154-aff3-583ccc5b774e%40googlegroups.com > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAMCsksGm5UZCdxoCwaN%2Bkf5vAO_2TE_YiL6iDrvPgK0UP9Ku9w%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
