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Accelerated open source driver for nVidia cards.

Nouveau is an open-source driver for nVidia video cards, being developed as an alternative to the proprietary one from nVidia.

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Creating a virtual X11 output with Nvidia driver

I'm attempting to follow this guide to extend the desktop on computer A to computer B by creating a virtual output on computer A and using vnc to display the virtual output on computer B. The problem I'm having is that the Nvidia driver does not…
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Why does monitor stay on when DPMS is enabled?

I am running Mint 13 connected to a Dell U2711 monitor via displayport. When the GDM logon screen is displayed, DPMS does not ever shut down the monitor. If I logon and run $ xset -q I get ... Screen Saver: prefer blanking: yes allow…
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Make Xorg ignore both nouveau and nVIDIA?

I have a system with on-board (on-CPU) graphics: (--) intel(0): Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) HD Graphics 4000 and an nVIDIA GTX 650 Ti. The on-board graphics is what feeds my display, and the GPU is used for other things (CUDA). Now, I…
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Errors from nouveau display driver on Debian - firmware: failed to load nouveau/nvc1_fuc084 (-2)

I've installed Debian 11 with dual boot on a laptop of mine lately. I installed the official image, so no non-free drivers got installed. I had some driver issues reported when using dmesg (I think one was the bluetooth) and I seemed to have fixed…
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Intel-virtual-output - High temperature causes Linux crash

When I activate a monitor on the HDMI output (wired to the NVIDIA Optimus chip) of my notebook through the commands below the notebook starts to get very hot, mainly if I am running a video (streaming web, for example) on this monitor. So far so…
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Remove nouveau driver (nvidia) without rebooting

I have a Ubuntu Version here, that is started from USB as a Live version. I do not want to install it on hard disk, because it would be too much for only testing a small thing on Ubuntu. So I started Ubuntu and installed the nvidia driver (from…
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Debian 7.7 PPC (iMac G4) - switch from nouveau to nv driver

I'm trying to get some flavour of Linux going on an old iMac G4/800 with NV11 video hardware. So far I've tried Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and Debian 7.7. All face the following common issues: I cannot get nouveau to work - at all. The console gets…
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huge files /var/log/messages and /var/log/warn

After an update last week, something is bloating up the messages and warn files in my /var/log/ folder. Closer inspection revealed that the following line was printed to the files every 0.000001 seconds resulting in 3 files of 20GB filling up…
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Switching to a second X session kills the first

I'm running into a strange problem here. I have a Linux box with the following (summarized) configuration: Dell Inspiron i5 NVIDIA GP108M GNU/Linux Debian "testing" xorg-server 2:1.20.0-3 According to my Xorg.0.log, the driver I'm running is…
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Is nouveau completely free of non-free code?

Is nouveau completely free of non-free code, including dependency on non-free firmware? This article makes it seem like nouveau depends on closed source firmware, but if I understand correctly, only requires it during development after which it…
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Switching from Nvidia proprietary driver to Nouveau driver for Nvidia card on Debian wheezy

I am running Debian wheezy. I have the following Nvidia graphics card installed: GeForce 7300 SE/7200 GS. I am currently using the proprietary Nvidia graphics drivers. I have the following packages installed containing nvidia in their names. ii …
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Linux Mint 20.3 laptop freezes randomly because of nouveau driver

When my system freezes randomly it starts to slow down heavily and in the end it does not react anymore. I can provoke it pretty consistently, if I start Firefox alone (with many tabs open) and start playing a YouTube video. Switching workspaces may…
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Why does my graphics card have glitches and low performance with the latest nouveau driver in debian?

I have a graphics card of the NVE4 type as listed here. According to the list and this feature matrix it should be compatible with the FOSS nouveau driver for nvidea graphics cards. I have xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1.0.16-1 installed, no…
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How to switch nvidia driver from "nouveau" to nvidia proprietary

i'm using Linux Mint. I recently updated my workstation, and from this moment, my drivers went nuts. I was working fine before, with the nvidia-361 drivers, and, when i finished my updates, and after rebooting the PC, il was running in "software…
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Set custom refresh rate for Sway (Wayland)

I know it's possible to set a custom refresh rate and resolution using Xorg (xrander) configurations. But I do not know how to do the same in Wayland/Sway using Nouveau drivers on an Nvidia-GPU.
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