I'm okay with the downgraded performance. :) My philosophy on software has
been changing recently and I'm really not into gaming that much any more. I
don't like all of the DRM with AAA games coming out. My new geforce 8400gs
has been fine for me so far. I plan on doing some more tinkering
That sucks that they downgrade their performance and put limits on it. :/
It'd be nice if there was a completely open source software/hardware based
graphics accelerator but I know that would be a huge undertaking to build!
O yeah.
So you thing that it is fine that Nvidia downgrades performance for their
older video cards through drivers and gpu's firmware. Nice example is Kepler
cards.
Cool! Thanks for sharing the info :)
The GPU performance state APIs are used to get and set various performance
levels on a per-GPU basis. P-States are GPU active/executing performance
capability and power consumption states.
P-States range from P0 to P15, with P0 being the highest performance/power
state, and P15 being the
What are pstates? Something to do with a performance level?
Hi lembas! :)
I care about freedom as well but I also have a deep passion for programming
3D graphics and would like to continue doing hobby projects on my GNU/Linux
setup. The rest of my development stack works great on Trisquel and I'm happy
to be moving over to the libre world. I sadly
Some people just care about their freedom.
You will have 3d acceleration with Nvidia cards, but at lower pstate. But you
can reclock Kepler cards and run it with highter pstate.
Why would you downgrade a GTX 970 for a much weaker GeForce 8400GS? You are
sacrificing performance just for the sake of being libre. When you buy a card
like the 970, your intentions are to play games and those games run better
with the non-free drivers.
Thanks for the info! :) I might have to look more into the Kepler cards. I
actually just ordered a new desktop from ThinkPengiun with a Geforce 8400GS.
Hoping that card works well and I get some 3D acceleration! It looks like
h-node says that card works with nouveau drivers but it wasn't
The bad is, that your GPU need signed Nvidia's firmware (more than non-free
obviously). And deblobbed Linux won't give you that firmware, because is
Nvidia's blob and it is missing. Your GPU can not to work properly without
that signed firmware.
Well I did some more digging and found this post
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/upgraded-video-card. Looks like I need to get
an older nvidia card and check h-node to see what card I should buy. I'll
keep this thread updated with what I end up getting. :)
Hello! I'm completely new to Trisquel and libre software. I just did a fresh
install of Trisquel 7 64 bit and everything went fine except my computer
keeps using the basic vesa drivers instead of the nouveau ones. I updated all
of my packages to the latest and even installed the latest
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