Pass legacy cards to nouveau #28

thomas · 2018-02-22T11:28:18Z

Test setup:

install nvidiactl
make existing Nvidia card(s) 'legacy' *)

*)
lspci -n | grep " 0300: 10de:" | cut -d ' ' -f 3
cd /usr/share/nvidia/pciidhints
ln -s  give_me_nouveau  XYZ_from_above

donald · 2018-02-22T13:43:29Z

This is brilliant! Goodbye, legacy drivers. Tested on sigcont.

pmenzel · 2018-02-22T13:48:08Z

nvidiactl/nvidiactl

+  if [ -h "${leglvlhint}" ] ; then
+    set_generic_mxgfx_link
+    test -e /lib/modules/${kver}/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau.ko && \
+    echo >&2 "NOTE: legacy nvidia card found, loading nouveau .." && \


Please indent command continuations one level more.

thomas added 3 commits February 22, 2018 11:14

nvidiactl: Use a function for generic mxgfx link

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nvidiactl: Pass legacy cards to nouveau driver

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nvidiactl: Straighten indent

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donald merged commit 5a1d993 into master Feb 22, 2018

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donald mentioned this pull request Feb 26, 2018

Add Linux 4.14.22 mariux64/bee-files#650

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Pass legacy cards to nouveau #28

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Pass legacy cards to nouveau #28

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