<p dir="ltr">I agree with your statement. </p>
<p dir="ltr">We will still be feature complete as in this case ; NVIDIA will continue to develop new drivers to fix reported problems. They react quickly to software defects. I'm not using non-free Nvidia driver as a gamer but a software developer for CUDA/OpenACC for HPC. I rather develop on Linux.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Furthermore, we need some support if it is related to our build process as we can not be responsible for non-free drivers. We should still look into it if there are dependencies or conflicts and mark them as tasks. This is a suggestion. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Regards, <br>
Efrem McCrimon <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 12, 2016 6:15 AM, "Maik Wagner" <<a href="mailto:maiktapwagner@aol.com">maiktapwagner@aol.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello everyone,<br>
<br>
As far as Bugzilla is concerned I originally labeled it as "Task". The idea is that developers can pick if they want to tackle this task or not. I like the free software driver and I am happy with it on my office system but for games etc. the proprietary driver delivers better 3D performance.<br>
<br>
As there have been recent efforts in supporting games in a blog posting we should definetely have the proprietary driver supported as an option and I thank you for the work you are putting into this.<br>
<br>
I have been told that a Beta means "feature complete". If this feature is not implemented the distribution would we feature incomplete and we in this case can't call it Beta.<br>
<br>
<br>
Maik<br>
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Am 12.02.2016 um 06:57 schrieb Efrem Mc:<br>
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Hi QA,<br>
I have a file that already contains these blacklist settings and they seem to be ignored. Somehow nouveau is getting installed and override the blacklist. I think it is getting loaded during the boot process such as initrd.<br>
<br>
I agree with Mark and state this as "Extras" or something equivalent. The idea is to use free software but in this case it required the non-free driver to support development using the GPU card.<br>
<br>
<br>
I did some research and found the following:<br>
<br>
the driver nouveau get loaded during "initrd", also known as "initramfs"<br>
<br>
<br>
This behavior is nothing new as it has been reported before (see) <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1263523" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bugs.launchpad.net/linuxmint/+bug/1263523</a>.<br>
<br>
<a href="ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/256.44/README/commonproblems.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/256.44/README/commonproblems.html</a><br>
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Actually the NVIDIA driver installation creates the blacklist file in the proper place in /etc/modprobe.d/. If nvidia-installer detects Nouveau is in use by the system, it will offer to create such a modprobe configuration file to disable Nouveau.<br>
<br>
This is what the drivers creates and it's location.<br>
<br>
cat /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf # generated by nvidia-installer blacklist nouveau options nouveau modeset=0<br>
The installation notes also stated to created this if needed:<br>
<br>
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf<br>
<br>
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<a href="http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#runfile-nouveau" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/cuda-installation-guide-linux/index.html#runfile-nouveau</a><br>
<br>
<a href="http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/pdf/CUDA_Installation_Guide_Linux.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://docs.nvidia.com/cuda/pdf/CUDA_Installation_Guide_Linux.pdf</a><br>
<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
Efrem<br>
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Am 11.02.2016 um 00:47 schrieb Blackcrack:<br>
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><br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> please add on the hardwareinstall of the nvidia drivers this<br>
> lines in the installscript :<br>
><br>
> echo 'blacklist nouveau' >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf<br>
> echo 'nouveau modeset=0' >> /etc/modprobe.d/disable-nouveau.conf<br>
source<br>
:<a href="https://kaischroed.wordpress.com/howto-install-nvidia-driver-on-fedora-replacing-nouveau/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://kaischroed.wordpress.com/howto-install-nvidia-driver-on-fedora-replacing-nouveau/</a><br>
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<br>
<br>
I put this info in Bug number 1512 in Bugzilla to keep track of this issue. Thanks for pointing it out.<br>
<br>
Maik<br>
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