is the nouveau project mostly dead? how continuous is development on it? - eviltoast

its trello page shows no sign of life, issues that are years old with no recent activity exclusively

  • RedWeasel@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Check the freedesktop site/repos. It was recently updated with support for 20, 30 & 40 series reclocking and hardware support. Runs pretty snappy on a 4080 and Plasma wayland. NVK, the vulkan part of it has been coming along nicely the past fee months as well.

    Totally has signs of life.

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        11 months ago

        Overclocking isn’t supported on newer boards with nouveau. You would need to use Nvidia’s binary driver for that. Look at the nvidia-smi command for doing it on wayland. I have not actually tried adjusting the clocks, just the power limit on Wayland though. Look at the”–application-clocks=“ cmdline option to it.

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      11 months ago

      Isn’t nvk supposed to be a part of what nouveau provides like how RADV provides vulkan functionality for the AMDGPU driver.

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        Yeah, NVK is their Vulcan driver. The rest of the user space Nouveau handles OpenGL (though they might just is Zink in the future, which translates OpenGL calls to Vulcan).