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TheMohawkNinja

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Registered: 2017-07-11

Posts: 44

2D video hardware accelerration on an Nvidia Quadro P2000

Hello,

I recently scored a P2000 from a decommissioned machine at work and am trying to get it fully up and running with Arch Linux. Currently it is driving my three monitors at their max resolution of 1440p, however vdpauinfo shows no support for any decoding, which I believe is why even minor 2D graphical tasks like fade transitions for backgrounds are laggy and cause terminals to lag, not to mention YouTube studdering constantly.

I have nouveau and nouveau-fw installed along with libva-mesa-driver and mesa-vdpau (although I'm not entirely sure mesa is supported given the age of the card), but no luck.

Not sure what else would need to be done in order to get the encoding working.

Thank you,

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: 2D video hardware accelerration on an Nvidia Quadro P2000

That's a pascal card, nouveau is generally not the best for most of these tasks for anything remotely modern, and HWDEC is apparently not supported at all: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html . Try the nvidia drivers.

TheMohawkNinja

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Registered: 2017-07-11

Posts: 44

Re: 2D video hardware accelerration on an Nvidia Quadro P2000

That's a pascal card, nouveau is generally not the best for most of these tasks for anything remotely modern, and HWDEC is apparently not supported at all: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html . Try the nvidia drivers.

I had a bad feeling that was going to be the answer. I had everything working with the Nvidia driver prior and thought I could use the FOSS nouveau driver.

Thanks,