Hi, what's the current status on NVidia cards in Fedora+KDE? Looking at updating to a GTX 1050 Ti. Currently running a GT 640 which is mostly okay with nouveau, except for the occasional text display glitch.
On Sunday, 4 November 2018 00:08:13 CET Ian Malone wrote:
Hi, what's the current status on NVidia cards in Fedora+KDE? Looking at updating to a GTX 1050 Ti. Currently running a GT 640 which is mostly okay with nouveau, except for the occasional text display glitch.
Everything works (but wayland) here on my Nvidia 1070 although I am using the propietary drivers provided by @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
If you wanna use Nouveau you can check the feature matrix here: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ ( your card should be of the Pascal family)
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 00:21, Marc Deop i Argemí marc@marcdeop.com wrote:
On Sunday, 4 November 2018 00:08:13 CET Ian Malone wrote:
Hi, what's the current status on NVidia cards in Fedora+KDE? Looking at updating to a GTX 1050 Ti. Currently running a GT 640 which is mostly okay with nouveau, except for the occasional text display glitch.
Everything works (but wayland) here on my Nvidia 1070 although I am using the propietary drivers provided by @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
If you wanna use Nouveau you can check the feature matrix here: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ ( your card should be of the Pascal family)
Thanks, nice to know it at least works with the proprietary driver, used to use it but have been on Nouveau for a few years now. Was curious about the Wayland status, but there's a reason I asked on the KDE-SIG...
Ian Malone wrote:
Thanks, nice to know it at least works with the proprietary driver, used to use it but have been on Nouveau for a few years now. Was curious about the Wayland status, but there's a reason I asked on the KDE-SIG...
KWin-Wayland won't work with the proprietary driver at all.
With Nouveau, it should work, if Nouveau is generally working on the card.
Kevin Kofler
On Sunday, 4 November 2018 00:21:34 GMT Marc Deop i Argemí wrote:
On Sunday, 4 November 2018 00:08:13 CET Ian Malone wrote:
Hi, what's the current status on NVidia cards in Fedora+KDE? Looking at updating to a GTX 1050 Ti. Currently running a GT 640 which is mostly okay with nouveau, except for the occasional text display glitch.
Everything works (but wayland) here on my Nvidia 1070 although I am using the propietary drivers provided by @rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
If you wanna use Nouveau you can check the feature matrix here: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/FeatureMatrix/ ( your card should be of the Pascal family)
Just FYI, Nouveau and QtWebEngine do not work well together at all, so if you use Kmail, Akregator, Falcon etc expect hard lockups/freezes with some cards.
For this reason I have had to use nVidia proprietary drivers from Negativo17
There are just too many bug reports about this and similar issues to list here but there out there..
Colin
Colin J Thomson wrote:
Just FYI, Nouveau and QtWebEngine do not work well together at all, so if you use Kmail, Akregator, Falcon etc expect hard lockups/freezes with some cards.
QtWebEngine upstream has blacklisted Nouveau for OpenGL for months now, so this should already be addressed!
Kevin Kofler
On Monday, 5 November 2018 00:22:30 GMT Kevin Kofler wrote:
Colin J Thomson wrote:
Just FYI, Nouveau and QtWebEngine do not work well together at all, so if you use Kmail, Akregator, Falcon etc expect hard lockups/freezes with some cards.
QtWebEngine upstream has blacklisted Nouveau for OpenGL for months now, so this should already be addressed!
OK that's interesting the problem must be with nouveau then.
I really dare not risk trying nouveau for the time being as when it locks up the only way out is a hard reset and being my main box its something I want to avoid doing.
Colin
Ian Malone wrote:
Hi, what's the current status on NVidia cards in Fedora+KDE? Looking at updating to a GTX 1050 Ti. Currently running a GT 640 which is mostly okay with nouveau, except for the occasional text display glitch.
Are you sure you want an Nvidia card? AMD cards are generally better supported with Free drivers (amdgpu, now developed by AMD themselves because they base their "AMDGPU PRO" proprietary driver on it – on one hand, this gives it a sour crippleware feeling, but on the other hand, it means AMD actually cares about the amdgpu driver working well). The RX 560 or RX 560D models seem to be in the same price range as the GTX 1050 Ti. That said, I have not tried any of these, I'm using an ancient Radeon HD model.
Kevin Kofler
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 at 02:07, Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler@chello.at wrote:
Ian Malone wrote:
Hi, what's the current status on NVidia cards in Fedora+KDE? Looking at updating to a GTX 1050 Ti. Currently running a GT 640 which is mostly okay with nouveau, except for the occasional text display glitch.
Are you sure you want an Nvidia card? AMD cards are generally better supported with Free drivers (amdgpu, now developed by AMD themselves because they base their "AMDGPU PRO" proprietary driver on it – on one hand, this gives it a sour crippleware feeling, but on the other hand, it means AMD actually cares about the amdgpu driver working well). The RX 560 or RX 560D models seem to be in the same price range as the GTX 1050 Ti. That said, I have not tried any of these, I'm using an ancient Radeon HD model.
A bit undecided, hence asking. However the RX 560 is a lower performance card, and I've used nvidia for my last three or so, so it's something of a known quantity. Performance-wise the RX 470 and RX 570 are more of a match, but both quite a bit dearer (and the older one harder to get hold off). Really in Linux I just need it for desktop work (and possibly CUDA, but this is my home system), it's games in Windows that I'm after the performance for.
Useful to have an update on the driver situation, I remember when the ATI driver was the hard one to get working. Didn't realise that AMD still had a proprietary/open-source split though.
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 12:53:18 +0000, you wrote:
Really in Linux I just need it for desktop work (and possibly CUDA, but this is my home system), it's games in Windows that I'm after the performance for.
You need to sort of the possilby issue first.
If you need CUDA, then you need Nvidia and the binary driver.
Similarly, if one wants to do Machine Learning then Nvidia and the binary driver will make your life easier though it is sort of possible to do ML without Nvidia.
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