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The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns (www.phoronix.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Ben Skeggs at Red Hat has long been the primary Nouveau DRM kernel driver maintainer for keeping this open-source NVIDIA GPU kernel driver within the mainline kernel going... Throughout all the battles, particularly after the GTX 900 series and later has required signed firmware images for enabling any accelerated GPU support, he's now resigning from maintaining the driver. Ben Skeggs has contributed to the Nouveau project for more than one dedace -- he's earned references on Phoronix since 2008.

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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Why NVidia?! Why do you force me to stay on Windows?! WHYYYYYYY?!

That's what went through my head yesterday as OneDrive threw the towel (again) and borked the whole Windows Explorer (again) so any attempt to access my own files would just freeze the Explorer-Window (again) because OneDrive tried to frantically download a folder that was deleted both locally and online (again) and OneDrive got confused (again)

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This is just the open source NVidia driver… there are also official ones.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That also suck. I especially need the RTX and Tensor pipelines for my 3D rendering hobby...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think sadly you’d either way get much better performance with proprietary drivers especially if the focus is generative AI.

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