Questions tagged [nouveau]
Accelerated open source driver for nVidia cards.
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How to setup Manjaro Linux and GRUB menu to switch between open source or proprietary video drivers?
Manjaro Linux installation image has 2 options on GRUB menu: setparams 'Boot with open source drivers' 'x86_64 lang=en_US keytable=us tz=UTC misobasedir=manjaro misolabel=MANJARO_KDE_2587 quiet ...
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Nouveau driver not working with RTX 3060 mobile
In my past experience, Fedora's Nouveau driver worked splendidly by default. In fact I would have try and disable it to get the proprietary NVIDIA to take over. However the Nvidia driver is a lot of ...
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Nouveau error - trying to get external gpu to work with libreboot/gnuboot
I recently flashed my BIOS chip with either GNUboot and libreboot. But I have not been able to get my external graphics card to work. The only error I could find regarding to nouveau is: ... vgaarb: ...
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How can I force an application to run with my dedicated Nvidia GPU using open source drivers
I'm using the open source Nouveau drivers, and I'd like to be able to run applications with my dedicated GPU, NVIDIA GeForce MX250 in X11. Proprietary drivers are out of the question for me as they ...
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nouveau error message appears on boot after upgrading nvidia driver manually
My Linux PC has a Nvidia GPU. I used to manage the graphics driver by the nvidia-driver package. However the stock is a bit behind so I decided to install the latest one myself from Nvidia. I made the ...
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How to reenable Nouveau after uninstalling NVIDIA proprietary drivers?
Problem: My Nvidia graphics card requires 340.x drivers, so I tried installing an older-than-most-recent driver to see if it could help me. It did not help, and now I that I removed it, I cannot get ...
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Can't switch tty from tty2 to tty6 in Arch Linux
I can't switch tty from tty2 to tty6 in Arch Linux. When I switch outside the GUI, the screen doesn't change (the text from tty1 remains, only the cursor disappears completely). And in the GUI (sddm, ...
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Ubuntu 20.04, nouveau driver fails to load correct firmware file
I've done a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 on a Dell Precision M6400. No hardware acceleration (glmark2 displays smooth graphics but CPU goes to 100%) and nouveau errors in dmesg... dmesg | grep ...
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