NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source GPU Kernel Modules

We’re now at a point where transitioning fully to the open-source GPU kernel modules is the right move, and we’re making that change in the upcoming R560 driver release.

I guess the people buying pallets of $50,000 cards have had words with Nvidia over their shitty closed-source Linux drivers. It’s not like Nvidia have suddenly decided to care about Linux gamers.

Is… is this the year of the Linux desktop?

For me it is. I migrated my wife last week and mine is next week. AI spying is the last straw for me.

I see you’re using your wife as a test user for yourself. Smart.

What distro u go with?

Mint. Cinnamon for my wife. Probably the same for me, though I’m debating XFCE.

If you know fuck all about Linux I think maybe Mint is pretty good but I kept having issues with the auto updater so I’m on Ubuntu - where I’m also having issues with the auto updater, so just ignore that shit and update from the shell. In which case Mint is still probably the most windows-user friendly, but I don’t know that it’s by a huge margin or anything.

It’s been the year of the linux desktop every year so far, since i’ve switched my machines to it. It is what you make of it

You’re welcome everyone, I just bought an AMD card to replace the buggy NVIDIA card I’m using on arch btw.

Thank you for your service o7

I would, but a built a SFF build two years ago that supported my 2080ti. Now, no new cards will fit in my case. I ride it til it dies, but I can run Wayland as of about a month ago, so that’s nice.

We’re open sourcing our drivers since Radeon has been doing that for decades now.

Isn’t it actually because they moved most of their driver code onto the card itself or something?

Only 2000-series cards and newer are supported, but this is definitely a good change

Makes me wonder if there was some critical component of the pre-rtx cards that they couldn’t open for some reason

I’m guessing the whole point of this is to boost AI. Pre-RTX have no tensor cores, therefore it would be a waste of time to open source.

I guess it’s the GSP which isn’t there on the pre rtx cards. Also, most of the stuff is moved into the firmware as a blob (hence the need for the GSP) so the drivers are not really open open. But it’s still a refreshing move

Call me Mr Cynical, but I’d guess that most of the super secret licensed proprietary stuff was moved to the firmware rather than being in the drivers.

I was kind of hoping that Pascal and Volta would still be included, given how much of a userbase still has those, however from Nvidia’s standpoint, I can kind of see it? These are almost a decade old. But either way, i’m sure they have some other corporate bullshit in mind

Sounds like you have more issues than the driver. I would suggest looking up proper configuration for your machine

Hey that’s pretty good, 2000 series really isn’t that new.

Can’t wait for my 3060 laptop to get those drivers

2000 series is pretty old

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