Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 18:01:29 +0100 From: "Floyd, Paul" <paulf2718@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas Message-ID: <996c704c-9ea4-6463-1339-958aa2d3798c@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CACc-My0k-ZM-WxxDjKyCF7Z%2B2ZUgpYK27TRKH=SEvZ_OoS3kfg@mail.gmail.com> References: <861r36xzpe.fsf@phe.ftfl.ca> <CAOtMX2gh98wbQ48S51QwpYfrnexpVb4vL%2BFVuxgLnT1otYjuAQ@mail.gmail.com> <bc3ba6502d5c5776f44304ff7878a5eb@bsdforge.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.2111240056470.68830@ai.fobar.qr> <d45757d9-b5ca-e1c7-5a1c-18159227de17@gmail.com> <CACc-My1jjd=7rSpEA8rg6y_Qq=ebL-WsTZdhv40Zs=F=XfZqyg@mail.gmail.com> <CACc-My0Fu8yORoi8DW9dCL8EgmmRodH9YdMwNeFDybmDWpCRXQ@mail.gmail.com> <371b758c-1efa-b5df-6437-ce4f06369383@gmail.com> <23c3e735-22b5-7528-e311-d75657c33a69@gmail.com> <CACc-My0k-ZM-WxxDjKyCF7Z%2B2ZUgpYK27TRKH=SEvZ_OoS3kfg@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2021-11-30 18:55, Stefan Blachmann wrote: > On practically every Linux distro Nouveau is the quasi standard driver > for any type of Nvidia cards, as the proprietary Nvidia drivers are > non-free category. > So I think one can consider Nouveau as very well-tested and reliable > and that porting it to FreeBSD would be worthwhile, profiting many > users who would else either have to buy a new graphics card or migrate > to Linux. When I first installed Fedora, it defaulted to nouveau = black screen. So I switched to non-free nvidia. This breaks on a fairly regular basis due to incompatible kernel changes. DKMS will try to rebuild the kernel module, which fails = black screen. I retried nouveau again a couple of times, still always a black screen. That gave me the impression that nouveau is unmaintained. Sounds like I was wrong there. You kind of get used to it, hitting alt-f2 for a console login and waiting a few days or weeks for non-free nvidia to catch up. By comparison I've had almost no problems with the nvidia drivers on FreeBSD. A+ Paul
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