The nouveau project aims to build high-quality, free/libre software drivers for nVidia cards. “Nouveau” [nuvo] is the French word for “new”.
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How can I find out which cards are supported by the nouveau driver?
I'm looking at different Nvidia cards and would like to know which are supported by the nouveau driver - is there a list of these available and the levels of support offered?
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Switch between nvidia-current and nouveau without a reboot?
Is it possible to switch between Nvidia's BLOB and Nouveau video drivers on-the-fly?
I think I need to be able to:
[✓] Unload nvidia
[✓] Unload nouveau
[✕] Restore the console ...
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Remove nVidia driver and go back to Nouveau
I've installed nVidia driver successfully but I want to go back to Nouveau driver and eliminate any xorg.conf file created by nVidia config tools.
What is the proper way to do it? (not ending up with ...
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What sort of information do I need to send a bug report to nouveau developers?
I'm aware that nouveau on PPC is "known to work" more than "rigorously tested" but I'm having issues with certain OpenGL 2D programs (not 3D) where the colors are completely off.
While it could be an ...
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How do I get a Dell Latitude e6420 working?
I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit) on a brand new Dell Latitude e6420, and I'm having a few problems. This laptop has an Optimus (?) setup - i.e. integrated gfx and an Nvidia Quadro NVS 4200M.
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How do I install the NVIDIA driver for a GeForce 6200?
I have been recently trying to find a solution for this on the web but did not find something useful or accurate for Ubuntu 11.10. I also consulted the NVIDIA help, but things there did not work for ...
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3D support from Nouveau drivers
My GPU is an old one (FX 5500), but it supports 3D acceleration with the NVIDIA driver. There is experimental acceleration support in the open source drivers as far as I know, and I would like to try ...
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Why do the Nouveau drivers work better than the Nvidia ones?
I have a bit of a weirdie here.
My rig uses an Nvidia GeForce 8600 GTS in a PCIE x16 slot. Up to about a year ago, no problems with the card. I then started getting random crashes. They got more ...
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How to get NVidia GeForce GT 210 drivers working on Lucid Lynx?
I have a workstation with NVIDIA GeForce GT 210 graphics card & Ubuntu 10.4, and am having rather annoying problems trying to get them working together. (On other machines and earlier Ubuntu ...
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Is there going to be Twinview ( or alternative) implemented for nouveau?
as I've had heavy issues with nvidia driver regarding performance of basic X window operations (window moving, resizing, scrolling). I switched to nouveau driver. But I lost the possibility of having ...
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3D Nouveau drivers package
On 11.04, the package for providing open-source 3D acceleration on NVIDIA cards was called libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental. What is the Oneiric equivalent of such a package?
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Why doesn't 3d acceleration work?
Hello first of all and sorry if my english is hard to understand hehe
I've been using Ubuntu since 9.04 and I used the 3d effects.
But since the 9.10 version, the drivers stop working. I have a ...
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Is ubuntu switching to nouveau?
Driver application in natty offers a free nvdia driver, and it works with compiz and unity. Will natty be able to use nouveau and gallium,
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Hibernation/suspend - nvidia/nouveau - Tried everything, still not working, any idea?
Having tested all the solutions that I could find on the net, I try my luck here:
I use Precise Pangolin, version 32bit kernel with pae
Symptoms:
Suspend goes well, but on resume, my screens ...
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Problem installing Ubuntu in my new computer
I have a new computer with an Nvidia graphics card and I'm trying to install Ubuntu. Any version newer than Natty will freeze in this state:
This case is me trying to install 11.10.
Whats weird is ...
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How do I get nVidia drivers working on new 2012 iMac?
I can't get nVidia drivers working on my new iMac. It has the GeForce GTX 680MX card and I believe it's currently using the nouveau drivers. Whenever I install the nVidia drivers (I've tried ...
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Can I view Nvidia GPU usage?
I know that I can view CPU usage using System Monitor:
Is there such a tool for viewing GPU usage, as well?
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Why is Ubuntu unable to mount my hard drive when I use Nvidia Discrete graphics?
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad T520 with Nvidia Optimus graphics. Optimus is designed to let you switch between discrete and integrated graphics as needed for performance and battery life.
The BIOS has ...
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How to Get nvidia driver working properly ( running experimental 3d support)
When typing into terminal lspci, the output for the graphics card is VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 18)
BUT, further down there is
VGA ...
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NVIDIA Nouveau Driver: No more 3D acceleration?
After playing around with my drivers, my Nouveau driver no longer seems to support 3D acceleration: Compiz effects are gone, as are 3D gaming capabilities.
Nouveau is still doing something correctly ...
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Revert back to Nouveau drivers [duplicate]
I was trying to install the proprietary nvidia drivers for my optimus laptop. This resulted in my GUI disappearing, I can only see my desktop background (can still open terminal and right-click the ...
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Getting nvidia GEFORCE GT 635M to work in 13.04
I tried installing nvidia drivers in 12.10 via x-swat repository, and primus, and noveau, and a million things i found on the net and everything just broke the system, until I finally got bumblebee to ...
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can xdiagnose tools can help me with troubleshoot suspend/resume on my laptop
I've found a tool called xdiagnose on my 12.04LTS, but no documentation.
I have a Dell Latitude laptop -- will this help me resolve suspend and resume issues that might be related to nvidia and ...
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Screen connected to the 'mini-displayport' doesn't work anymore on an Apple Monitor
I am running Ubuntu on a Mac Pro with a Apple monitor. The machine has a GeForce GT 120 (aka GeForce 9500GT). The DVI output is still working, but the screen connected to the 'mini-displayport' ...
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Installation Hangs on a Macbook Pro 5,1
I am trying to install the 64bit AMD64 Mac iso on my Macbook Pro 5,1 and I can only get to the Ubuntu screen which allows you to choose the LiveCD option or the Install Now option (plus some other ...
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Will the Nouveau driver continue to get updates?
I installed Natty yesterday and it gave me the option to install "Experimental 3D support for NVIDIA cards" (which I'm assuming is Nouveau). Now, is there a PPA I will need to add to receive regular ...
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Monitor resolution problem (nouveau-driver, 32-bit Ubuntu 12.04.1)
All of a sudden the system changed the screen resolution to 1240x768. I have an AOC 931 Swl with optimal resolution: 1366x768 (60 Hz).
outputs:
xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x ...
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How activate NVIDIA drivers?
Yesterday I was having a few memory leaks with Compiz, I decided to put this down to the new NVIDIA drivers that I installed.
I purged everything with NVIDIA from my system and booted into Ubuntu ...
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Dual nVidia GPUs (3 monitors) not working in 11.10
after searching I have not found a solution.
I have 2 nvidia quadro 295 cards with 3 monitors but I can not extend twinview across multiple GPUs.
I have the most recent nvidia proprietary drivers ...
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How do I revert from the Nvidia driver to the unrestricted driver? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Remove nVidia driver and go back to Nouveau
Installed Ubuntu 11.10 on a Gateway GT 5628 with a NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT graphics processor. Was working fine until I ...
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How comes I can't use Unity with the propietary nVidia driver for my Geforce 410M?
I've got a 2nd generation Intel i5 processor with integrated graphics. In live usb mode, Ubuntu uses this one and Unity works fine. After installation with automatical updates and 3rd party software ...
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nouveau driver issue when trying to boot ubuntu
i just installed ubuntu, and it says nouveau failed to idle channel 1 and 2. it also says nouveau playlist update failed. i believe this is a video card driver problem. what can i to to resolve this?
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How do I force X to use the vesa driver?
I have an old nvidia card not supported anymore (Ti4200Go agp 8x).
The nouveau driver has problems drawing the cursor and shows ugly pictures on the screen.
How do I try the vesa driver? I'm sad the ...
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Ubuntu 12.04 and Nvidia woes
So I know this has been posted a few times, I have searched and tried options but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install my video card drivers.
Where I stand now: Fresh install of ...
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Can I Force Kubuntu Installer To Use Nvidia Driver, Not Nouveau?
Is there an alternate install routine for Kubuntu 12.04 that would force the installer to use the Nvidia driver rather than Nouveau?
I ask because I've installed KDE-Full on Ubuntu 12.04 and like it. ...
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nouveau driver logs into unity-2d by default
I have an old system with NVIDIA Corporation NV25 [GeForce4 Ti 4600]. When running Ubuntu , the nouveau driver loads fine but does not log into Unity with compiz. Instead it logs into Unity-2D. Any ...
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Should I use the Nouveau Gallium 3D driver?
Does the Nouveau 3D driver works with Ubuntu Natty Narwhal?
What are the drawbacks of using this driver, i.e. is there any chance of breaking the desktop using this driver?
The Nvidia driver will ...
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Can I use a different graphical driver while booting, and the proprietery NVIDIA driver once my computer has started?
I have a bit of a problem in that as I am booting my PC, the boot screen isn't exactly pretty because I am using the proprietary NVIDIA drivers.
I am wondering if there is a method to use the VESA ...
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Am I using the Nouveau driver or the proprietary NVIDIA driver?
For a long time, I have used the NVIDIA proprietary driver. In Additional Drivers the NVIDIA driver was activated. However, I just "Removed" that driver because I would like to use the Nouveau driver ...
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Nouveau failing to drive dual monitors on kernel 3.2.0-30
I have set up my system quite a while ago and even though nouveau has some quirks, I still prefer to use it to the nvidia drivers, because or randr.
After the latest kernel upgrades to version ...
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gnome shell choppy/flicking after --replace (nvidia gfx)
after regular updates/upgrades my gnome-shell stopped working and got into fallback mode.
I have tested installing nvidia drivers (i have an nvidia gfx), removing them, blacklisting nouveau and other ...
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Can't adjust backlight on an Nvidia 335m GT
I have a laptop mySN QMG6 / Chiligreen Mobilitas NW which is Quanta TW9 barebone with intel i3 and nvidia 335m GT onboard.
On ubuntu distros 10.04, 10.10, 11.04 and 11.10 i had problem with changing ...
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Choosing between binary or source Nvidia drivers
I've been using ubuntu for a while now and had a bit of a problem a while back with my graphics card and got to messing around with drivers.
Even though I'va had experience (nasty ones) with drivers, ...
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Can't recover my desktop environment
Good evening Everyone, I am having problems recovering my desktop.
Before it came to this desktop without the taskbar at the top, and the sidebar. Also the title bar for applications are gone.
What ...
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GeForce 8600M GT: Nouveau performance better than proprietary driver?
After installing Ubuntu 12.10 on this computer, I installed NVIDIA's proprietary driver, since I might want to play a few games. I soon started having problems with video and audio. I'd be watching a ...
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Bluetooth Can't Be Found
The Bluetooth in my computer(Latitude E6500) worked completely fine under Windows 7, but Ubuntu will not recognize Bluetooth. Right now I am running 13.04 daily build, but this problem was also the ...
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Ubuntu stops at Nouveau during boot up (live or install)
I have used Linux in the past, but am still a casual user. I recently upgraded laptops to a Dell M6600. It has a i7-3840QM at 2.8GHz and 32Gb of Ram. It has both an intel HD 4000 on board graphics ...
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Proprietary videocard driver makes unity disappear
Every time I try to install a driver for my videocard, Unity crashes, and I just start up with an empty desktop. I've had this problem with both Nvidia and AMD carts. Only the Nouveau drivers + Nvidia ...
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Lubuntu 12.04 PPC slow startup and shutdown
I've installed Lubuntu 12.04 on a Powerbook G4 (PowerPC 1GHz, 1 gb ram, Geforce MX 440). Everything works perfectly except the startup and shutdown. To startup my system I have to wait about 3 minutes ...
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Why is Firefox scrolling faster with Nouveau driver than with Nvidia driver?
I'm really astonished that using the nvidia driver results in poor speed and high cpu usage when working with Unity. I mean scrolling in Firefox consumes 100% cpu time and still isn't as fluid as it ...
