[Nouveau] Nvidia GK106GLM (Quadro K2100M) with Nouveau

[Ilia Mirkin]

Hi Martin,

Depends what your expectations are. Nouveau is missing a number of
features of the blob, the most important of which is probably
stability. Whether you run into instability or not depends a lot on
the software that you use, so you'll just have to find out for
yourself if it works well for you or not. Personally, I have
multi-month uptimes with it. But others struggle to stay up for an
hour.

With GK106, you should have manual reclocking, which should enable you
to achieve ~50-80% of blob performance, if that's a concern for you.
You won't get Vulkan nor H.264 hardware encoding.

Cheers,

  -ilia

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 11:55 AM Martin Knoblauch <knobi at knobisoft.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  for years I have been running my DELL M4800 Laptop under Linux with the proprietary drivers from NV. Finally I am kind of sick of recompiling those drivers every time I upgrade the Kernel.
>
> So, my question is: is there any chance to operate a GK106GLM using nouveau.ko?
>
> Sorry if this has been asked before.
>
> Cheers
> Martin
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