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NVIDIA Transitioning To Official, Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Driver
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| 11 May 2022
| Michael Larabel
Posted on 05/12/2022 10:40:06 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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posted on
05/12/2022 10:40:06 AM PDT
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ShadowAce
To: rdb3; JosephW; martin_fierro; Still Thinking; zeugma; Vinnie; ironman; Egon; raybbr; AFreeBird; ...
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posted on
05/12/2022 10:40:20 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
05/12/2022 10:45:21 AM PDT
by
fuzzylogic
(welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
To: fuzzylogic
Agreed—I’ve been wanting/waiting for this for well over a decade.
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posted on
05/12/2022 10:52:38 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: ShadowAce
If there is a linux ping list here, I should probably be on it.
To: tanstaafl.72555
It's not *strictly* Linux, though the vast majority of the pings regard Linux.
I've added you--welcome aboard!
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posted on
05/12/2022 10:54:50 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: ShadowAce
Finally! I’d still like to see OS on the userspace side, but this is a start.
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posted on
05/12/2022 10:58:23 AM PDT
by
dinodino
( )
To: ShadowAce
I ended up with a Nvidia GPU knock off which works but l cannot update the driver. I wonder if this will help.
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posted on
05/12/2022 10:59:07 AM PDT
by
gibsonguy
To: gibsonguy
What company makes Nvidia “knockoff” GPU processors?
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posted on
05/12/2022 11:03:40 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: ShadowAce
What will you personally do with it? Are you going to review the code for security issues? Expand the code and improve it? Just curious.
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posted on
05/12/2022 11:07:12 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
To: for-q-clinton
Since the proprietary version does not have its own repository, updating the driver was a pain.
Being open source, it can now reside in the main, official repos and will make updating distros much easier.
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posted on
05/12/2022 11:13:05 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: ShadowAce
Ah. That makes sense. Article didn’t cover that pretty obvious (now that you mention it) issue. At least I didn’t see it covered in the article.
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posted on
05/12/2022 11:17:56 AM PDT
by
for-q-clinton
(Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
To: ShadowAce
ABOUT DOGGONE TIME!!!
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posted on
05/12/2022 11:20:23 AM PDT
by
so_real
( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
To: ShadowAce
Good news! I'm using the GPU inside my i9 right now. I haven't needed an nVidia card in my Linux work. The company laptop has a high end nVidia capability to support the real time 3D graphics playback for the mission planning system. The early versions of that system (F14/Topgun vintage) required racks of Linux boxes to render the 3D graphics. We can do it on a laptop today. The system was moved off Linux to Windows due to better GPU support. We had better moving 3D model support in Windows too.
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posted on
05/12/2022 11:23:20 AM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
05/12/2022 12:24:50 PM PDT
by
Bikkuri
(I am proud to be a PureBlood.)
To: ShadowAce
Absolutely astounding news!!!!!
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posted on
05/12/2022 2:03:07 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
To: ConservativeMind
Well l didn’t intend to get a knock off. A guy on eBay was selling a 1050ti at a pretty good price. He said he got in a mystery box so l took a chance and bought it. It came in decent packaging with a driver disk. I installed and the PC
thinks it’s the real thing. It works until you try to update the driver then it’s game over. I ran a GPU analyzer tool on it and it came back as a bootleg Nvidia card. So it will work with the driver from 6 years ago which l guess is when they copied it. But l cannot update the driver.
To: ShadowAce
Only Turing and newer GPUs will be supported by this open-source kernel driver.I'd be interested in knowing if anyone knows how to determine what type of GPU you have.
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posted on
05/12/2022 4:18:37 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
To: zeugma
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posted on
05/12/2022 5:28:36 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: ShadowAce
Thanks. I tried lspci and dmidecode Guess I don’t really know what I’m looking for :-)
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posted on
05/12/2022 6:26:31 PM PDT
by
zeugma
(Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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