[om-qa] XORG Nvidia 352.30

Maik Wagner maiktapwagner at aol.com
Sun Feb 7 02:06:54 EST 2016


Hello Efrem,

thanks for taking the time to go on such an ambitious venture. I 
recently came across compiling the proprietary driver on a system which 
initially came with nouveau and failed miserably exchanging nouveau for 
the proprietary driver.

I don't know what the vote will turn out but IMHO we should aim to 
support the card which has been sold most and is the most popular so 
that people to want to try OpenMandriva have the best experience.

I don't think we are aiming at the graphics workstation market and it 
therefore doesn't have to be the most powerful card in graphics performance.

As far as proprietary vs. free software driver is concerned I am a 
strong advocate of the free software solutions as proprietary software 
gives a lock-in effect we want to avoid.

I am putting bero, one of our main developers in CC as he might want to 
comment on that as well.

I am not a gamer and haven't bought a graphics card for ages and rely on 
AMD onboard graphics which are okay for me and do the job.

Unfortunately I lost touch with the nVidia product range but I assume 
you know a lot more about this.

Please let us know in Bugzilla on http://issues.openmandriva.org and 
make sure your installation of the Beta is a current as possible so we 
have state of the art test data that we can work upon should be want to 
put more emphasis on the proprietary driver.


Maik

Am 07.02.2016 um 05:55 schrieb Efrem Mc:
>
> Hi QA, I am going to attempt to install the Nvidia non free drivers on 
> OMLX 3 Beta.  I have two possible configurations that are available 
> for testing:
>
> Config-1], GPU card with multiple heads (hdmi 1.4,dvi,display port 
> 1.2) to support up to three monitors. I have two monitors: dvi and 
> hdmi, 960 GTX.
>
> Config-2] dual GPU graphic cards, with a one-to-one monitor match. 
> Each card does have multiple heads, Nvidia 730 GTX, 960 GTX
>
> I have three monitors if I wanted to max out my workspace area.
>
>   I will try to get this working on the proprietary drivers using 
> Config-1. It works with nouveau driver already. The monitors have 
> different resolutions capabilities and configured with DPMS option.
>
> The graphics card is a Nvidia 960 GTX for Config-1; Config-2 (960 GTX, 
> 730 GTX).  (These were part of a Christmas gift I received.)
>
>
> Need your VOTE on what to test and report.  I will start on Config-1. 
>   Should I test Config-2 after successfully test Config-1 once it works?
>
>
> Status: Config-1
>
> I have failed so far because of the ABI 20.0 driver in x-server 
> 1.18.0. using the non-free driver.
> I will try to tweak it. I had the Nvidia 340 working, then I updated 
> it to 352.30, then everything broke. Currently X is not working, I 
> lost the original xorg.conf file. I will create one manually. I am 
> getting segmentation dumps on the nvidia driver.
>
> I think I will have to remove all the nvidia drivers to get it back 
> working with the nouveau driver working again.
>
> The latest Nvidia driver 352.79 was tested and that does not fix the 
> problem. Once I make some manual changes it might work.  I just 
> downloaded 358.16 and it claims it fixes the ABI 20.0 driver problem.  
> I will report after testing.
>
> I found some links on xorg.org <http://xorg.org> man pages. 
> nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MultiMonitorDesktop/ 
> <http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/MultiMonitorDesktop/>
>
>
> VOTE - Config-1 Testing [Y / N]
>
> VOTE - Config-2 Testing [Y / N]
>
> Please cut and paste this at the top on the reply.
>
> Regards,
>
>
> Efrem McCrimon
>
> efremmc2 at gmail.com <mailto:efremmc2 at gmail.com>
>
>
>
> Efrem McCrimon
>
>
>
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