NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules

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Post by shaicoleman » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 6:40 PM UTC

NVIDIA Transitions Fully Towards Open-Source Linux GPU Kernel Modules
developer.nvidia.com

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Post by hypeatei » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 6:56 PM UTC

How is the NVIDIA driver situation on Linux these days? I built a new desktop with an AMD GPU since I didn't want to deal with all the weirdness of closed source or lacking/obsolete open source drivers.

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Post by brrrrrm » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 6:56 PM UTC

Kernel is an overloaded term for GPUs. This is about the linux kernel

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Post by berkeleyjunk » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 6:57 PM UTC

As someone who is pretty skeptical and reads the fine print, I think this is a good move and I really do not see a downside (other than the fact that this probably strengthens the nVidia monoculture).

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Post by bradyriddle » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 7:00 PM UTC

I remember Nvidia getting hacked pretty bad a few years ago. IIRC, the hackers threatened to release everything they had unless they open sourced their drivers. Maybe they got what they wanted.

[0] https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/nvidia-hackers-allegedly-...

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Post by tadasv » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 7:00 PM UTC

hypeatei wrote: post #2

How is the NVIDIA driver situation on Linux these days? I built a new desktop with an AMD GPU since I didn't want to deal with all the weirdness of closed source or lacking/obsolete open source drivers.

great. rtx 4090 works out of the box after installing drivers from non-free. That's on debian bookworm.

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Post by enoeht » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 7:02 PM UTC

didn't they say that many times before?

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Post by creata » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 7:06 PM UTC

Huh. Sway and Wayland was such a nightmare on Nvidia that it convinced me to switch to AMD. I wonder if it's better now.

(IIRC the main issue was https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1317 , which is now complete.)

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Post by jppittma » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 7:08 PM UTC

hypeatei wrote: post #2

How is the NVIDIA driver situation on Linux these days? I built a new desktop with an AMD GPU since I didn't want to deal with all the weirdness of closed source or lacking/obsolete open source drivers.

4070 worked out of the box on my arch system. I used the closed source drivers and X11 and I've not encountered a single problem.

My prediction is that it will continue to improve if only because people want to run nvidia on workstations.

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Post by karamanolev » Wed, Jul 17, 2024, 7:08 PM UTC

brrrrrm wrote: post #3

Kernel is an overloaded term for GPUs. This is about the linux kernel

"... Linux GPU Kernel Modules" is pretty unambiguous to me.