Re: glmark2 (was: nouveau OK for GTX 970?)

2024-08-08 Thread Felix Miata
George at Clug composed on 2024-08-09 12:47 (UTC+1000): > Felix Miata wrote: >> George at Clug composed on 2024-08-08 09:12 (UTC-0400): >> > Wayland does not score well on glmark2, does anyone know why. >> # inxi -S >> System: >>   Host: hp945 Kernel: 6.7.12-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 >>   Con

Re: glmark2 (was: nouveau OK for GTX 970?)

2024-08-08 Thread George at Clug
On Friday, 09-08-2024 at 01:49 Felix Miata wrote: > George at Clug composed on 2024-08-08 09:12 (UTC-0400): > > > Wayland does not score well on glmark2, does anyone know why. > # inxi -S > System: >   Host: hp945 Kernel: 6.7.12-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 >   Console: pty pts/0 Distro: Debian GNU

Re: glmark2 (was: nouveau OK for GTX 970?)

2024-08-08 Thread Felix Miata
George at Clug composed on 2024-08-08 09:12 (UTC-0400): > Wayland does not score well on glmark2, does anyone know why. # inxi -S System: Host: hp945 Kernel: 6.7.12-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Console: pty pts/0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid # aptitude search lmark v glmark2

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-08 Thread George at Clug
On Thursday, 08-08-2024 at 12:52 Felix Miata wrote: > George at Clug composed on 2024-08-08 12:02 (UTC+1000): > > > glmark2-wayland is a benchmark for OpenGL 2.0. > > This package intended only for the wayland platform. GL version. > > > glmark2 Score: 5184, i7-3770, Radeon RX 6600 > > > If

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread Felix Miata
George at Clug composed on 2024-08-08 12:02 (UTC+1000): > glmark2-wayland is a benchmark for OpenGL 2.0. > This package intended only for the wayland platform. GL version. > glmark2 Score: 5184, i7-3770, Radeon RX 6600 > If anyone can comment whether this is good or not, please do. I don't hav

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread Max Nikulin
On 07/08/2024 23:19, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/6/24 21:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: $ sudo lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1) The following command reports vendor ID and product ID pair lspci -nn | grep -i vga Using it you

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread George at Clug
On Thursday, 08-08-2024 at 11:12 Van Snyder wrote: > On Thu, 2024-08-08 at 10:17 +1000, George at Clug wrote: > > I could elaborate further if you want. However, in summary, my > > experience is that both Nvidia and Radeon work well with used with > > their own drivers (as packaged with Linux).

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/7/24 21:12, Van Snyder wrote: I ran glmark2 on my primary desktop, with NVidia Quadro K2200 and the 535 driver. The score was 4455. Then I ran it on another desktop with GeForce GT 630. nvidia-detect says it's "not supported by any driver version up to 535.183.01." Searching for the driver

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread Van Snyder
On Thu, 2024-08-08 at 10:17 +1000, George at Clug wrote: > I could elaborate further if you want. However, in summary, my > experience is that both Nvidia and Radeon work well with used with > their own drivers (as packaged with Linux). If Debian and NVidia decide not to keep the driver available

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread George at Clug
On Thursday, 08-08-2024 at 02:51 e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 8/6/24 20:02, George at Clug wrote: > > > > > > On Wednesday, 07-08-2024 at 03:11 Eben King wrote: > >> Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau > >> driver handles this card. Is this correct? > > > > With Debi

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 20:02, George at Clug wrote: On Wednesday, 07-08-2024 at 03:11 Eben King wrote: Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver handles this card. Is this correct? With Debian Bookworm, I had Nvidia GTX 970 and Nvidia GTX 960 cards working on Nouveau, d

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/7/24 00:33, Felix Miata wrote: eben composed on 2024-08-06 17:16 (UTC-0400): Felix Miata wrote: eben composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): Sven Joachim wrote: You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the results. [0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connec

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 21:20, Jeffrey Walton wrote: Dang, I didn't capture dmesg. $ sudo lspci | grep -i vga 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] (rev a1) or I did "AND". Oopsie. $ sudo lshw -C video I couldn't remember the syntax so I ran "lshw > file" th

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-07 Thread eben
On 8/7/24 00:33, Felix Miata wrote: eben composed on 2024-08-06 17:16 (UTC-0400): That'll take some doing, as I don't have a non-X mail client. Gimme a bit. Email client shouldn't be relevant. You can redirect dmesg to a file, to copy or pastebin any time. Before retiring the Intel, run g

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
eben composed on 2024-08-06 17:16 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: >> eben composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): >>> Sven Joachim wrote: >> You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the results. >>> >>> [0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered > .

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Tue, Aug 6, 2024 at 9:05 PM wrote: > > On 8/6/24 16:39, Felix Miata wrote: > > e...@gmx.us composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): > > > >> Sven Joachim wrote: > > > >>> You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the > >>> results. > >> > >> [0.801515] ACPI: bus type d

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread George at Clug
On Wednesday, 07-08-2024 at 03:11 Eben King wrote: > Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver > handles this card. Is this correct? With Debian Bookworm, I had Nvidia GTX 970 and Nvidia GTX 960 cards working on Nouveau, depending on what "working" means to y

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 17:16, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/6/24 16:39, Felix Miata wrote: e...@gmx.us composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): Sven Joachim wrote: You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the results. [    0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered ... He me

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 16:39, Felix Miata wrote: e...@gmx.us composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): Sven Joachim wrote: You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" and show us the results. [0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered ... He meant run the command with the GTX inst

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
e...@gmx.us composed on 2024-08-06 16:29 (UTC-0400): > Sven Joachim wrote: >> You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'" >> and show us the results. > > [0.801515] ACPI: bus type drm_connector registered > [1.163819] i915 :00:02.0: [drm] Finished loading DMC firmware > i915

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 15:48, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2024-08-06 14:56 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/6/24 14:43, Sven Joachim wrote: That may be a sign that the firmware for the card is not installed, AFAIK it is necessary to do anything useful with it. In Debian 12 and earlier the firmware is in the pa

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2024-08-06 14:56 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 8/6/24 14:43, Sven Joachim wrote: >> On 2024-08-06 13:11 -0400, Eben King wrote: >> >>> Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver >>> handles this card. Is this correct? >> >> Some features are missing, e.g. ther

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Van Snyder
On Tue, 2024-08-06 at 14:56 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > Also Grub gets a different video mode, maybe 24x80 instead of so tiny > as to > > > be nearly illegible. You can change the grub fonts. I think the default is unicode.pf2, which is usually too small to read on anything but VGA. I found DejaVu

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Van Snyder
NVidia's driver search at https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx says that many drivers still available with Debian 12 support this card. I don't know which one is installed by "apt install nvidia-drivers" but it might be 535. You can get a script to install a specific driver from the search pag

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 14:43, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2024-08-06 13:11 -0400, Eben King wrote: Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver handles this card. Is this correct? Some features are missing, e.g. there is no accelerated video decoding. Running a desktop should no

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread eben
On 8/6/24 14:19, Felix Miata wrote: Eben King composed on 2024-08-06 13:11 (UTC-0400): Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver handles this card. Is this correct? Technically, no, because you wrote "the No..." The nouveau kernel module does provide kernel

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2024-08-06 13:11 -0400, Eben King wrote: > Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver > handles this card. Is this correct? Some features are missing, e.g. there is no accelerated video decoding. Running a desktop should not be a problem though. > If so, do I

Re: nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
Eben King composed on 2024-08-06 13:11 (UTC-0400): > Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver > handles this card. Is this correct? Technically, no, because you wrote "the No..." The nouveau kernel module does provide kernel drm services, in conjunction with l

nouveau OK for GTX 970?

2024-08-06 Thread Eben King
Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver handles this card. Is this correct? If so, do I just install the packages, install the card, tell the BIOS to use it, power off, move the monitors, and that's it? With the card connected, I can log in from console, but