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dakota

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Registered: 2016-05-20

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[SOLVED] Recommended Driver for Nvidia GP106GL

Q. For the nvidia GP106GL, is there a clear recommendation to use nvida vs nouveau? Or is this one of those things that I just have to try and see which works better?

$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
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b3:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP106GL [Quadro P2200] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Dell GP106GL [Quadro P2200]
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia

I replaced nouveau with nvidia (trying to fix a problem that might not have been related to nouveau at all). The result was an extremely large (and unusable) console font, which I eventually fixed by

• removing kms from the mkinitcpio HOOKS array, and

• adding (nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm) to the MODULES array

Q. Do all (4) of those nvidia modules work together? Or do I need to test them one at a time to see which ones are necessary?

Q. Does adding those module to the MODULES array do the same thing as setting nvidia_drm.modeset=1 in the kernel parameters?

# cat /sys/module/nvidia_drm/parameters/modeset
N

Cheers,

Last edited by dakota (2024-02-27 05:12:04)

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V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] Recommended Driver for Nvidia GP106GL

Nouveau is basically never the better choice with nvidia, if you aren't in it for ideological open source reasons, use the proprietary driver.

Yes they do and no you don't generally need to test anything yourself here, you need all of them in one form or another but the exact relevance is mostly transparent to you as an user (e.g. nvidia_uvm is required for computing/CUDA and NVENC/NVDEC usecases)

It does not, you normally do both of these things. Having it in the initramfs simply makes sure they can be loaded early, you're generally strongly reccommended to have that parameter so you get rid of the simpledrm device that can break proper monitor detection.

dakota

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Registered: 2016-05-20

Posts: 417

Re: [SOLVED] Recommended Driver for Nvidia GP106GL

Thank you!

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