Nvidia Open Source Driver....

Hi All
I see there is an alternative to the Nvidia proprietary driver now…

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

https://forums.opensuse.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=1090&stc=1

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Nvidia :heart: Linux

Hi
A good move all things considered… hopefully it doesn’t take long to sort out the power management, that’s probably the only thing I see as being an issue, aside from that it’s working for me in my use case.

Hi All
So I see this now: https://sndirsch.github.io/nvidia/2022/06/07/nvidia-opengpu.html

I finally have the T100 working properly with power management (515.48.07) installed the hardway by adding the following options;


cat /etc/modprobe.d/50-nvidia.conf
 
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
options nvidia-drm modeset=1
##Enable NVIDIA Open Kernel Driver
options nvidia NVreg_OpenRmEnableUnsupportedGpus=1
##Enable NVIDIA GSP Firmware
options nvidia NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=1

@malcolmlewis:

Malcolm, does this new driver also need the openSUSE nvidia-firmware-installer package which was previously needed by the nouveau driver?

Downloads and installs the nVidia firmware to use with nouveau

Hi
If via the rpms, it’s called kernel-firmware-nvidia-gsp via the hardway it get’s installed…


/sbin/modinfo nvidia | head -n 7

filename:       /lib/modules/5.18.1-1-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
firmware:       nvidia/515.48.07/gsp.bin <===
import_ns:      DMA_BUF
alias:          char-major-195-*
version:        515.48.07
supported:      external
license:        Dual MIT/GPL

@malcolmlewis:

Due to the frequent lack of “reviving from suspend” with the proprietary nvidia options I haven’t messed with installing it in any of my Nvidia hardware machines. In some cases nouveau is being used. In other cases, perhaps in TW, @mrmazda I believe it was, clued me into selecting “default” on the install . . . and default is . . . one of the old drivers . . . ??? It works very well, and no issues with having to mess around with Nvidia updates, which seem to not keep pace with bleeding edge linux systems.

I only instance where I have to have nvidia software is in my newish System76 Gazelle in the Pop_OS system. They seem to incorporate the nvidia software into their OS . . . but, I have a choice to not use the pure Nvidia graphics . . . I’m using “integrated” or something like that that runs mostly on the mobo card, but can “go to warp” if it needs to . . . .

I like the hardware, it’s in all of my running machines, but I stay back from the proprietary software in linux . . . it’s got glitches. And, if you spend the time to figure out how to get to the “linux” sub-forum the guy says, “We just support our new hardware.” Linux doesn’t really get on their radar.