Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!postmaster.netnews.com!us14.netnews.com!not-for-mail X-Trace: DXC=RkhKSDnAFHO9E:6N@`X^6NHWonT5<]0TMQ;nb^V>PUfF=AnO\FUBY[@kk?Sl;]0eVFV3N6I\NkCRL3e=llHa]nQHAjA6U`DU>^B;ShNC_NEBiC3i5aM4]lNVK X-Complaints-To: support@blocknews.net From: Andrzej Matuch Subject: Re: Running open nvidia driver on Linux 6.9 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy References: User-Agent: Pan/0.146 (Hic habitat felicitas; d7a48b4 gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pan.git) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: 17 May 2024 14:06:17 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: <66476459$0$3354$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 127.0.0.1 X-Trace: 1715954777 reader.netnews.com 3354 127.0.0.1:44343 Bytes: 1772 On Fri, 17 May 2024 08:17:44 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote: > vallor wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties: > >> So NVidia has an open driver now that does most everything the >> proprietary driver does -- I think it only leaves out CUDA. >> >> It certainly has Vulkan. I'm running the stuff now, because at one >> point, >> the proprietary binary blob had an issue with the 6.9 kernel. Used it >> for a long gaming session last night, and knock-on-wood, it was >> flawless. >> >> The game -- Elite Dangerous Odyssey -- uses DX, which proton translates >> using DXVK into Vulkan calls. >> >> https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules >> >> NVidia says they are transitioning to the open driver. Good for them! > ============= > > Do not use that word around here!!! :-D It is the only proper use of the term.