Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merged Into Mesa 23.3

featured, 10 months ago

Such a huge step to finally ridding ourselves of that garbage proprietary driver stack. There’s still so much work to do but hats off to the team!

AnUnusualRelic, 10 months ago

In the end, is there any use case for Nouveau? Assuming you’re running a GUI?

Or is it for all those people that are just running a text interface on top of their GPU?

Audacity9961, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

Plenty.

For older cards that do have reclocking, it works exceptionally well, including for gaming.

For many newer cards, even though it won’t reclock it will get you into a desktop, and even give you a good accelerated wayland experience.

Moving forward, once the new open source nvidia kernel driver and nouveau bits land, and the driver matures it will probably be the best nvidia driver on linux.

lemmyvore, 10 months ago

It will give you an image, even if not accelerated. It’s important to have a FOSS driver that works with your proprietary card at all times and gives you a basic desktop — and for some people that’s all they need.

AProfessional, 10 months ago

It’s also likely this userspace driver will one day work with Nvidias new open kernel module.