13 Nov
2019
13 Nov
'19
8:13 p.m.
On Wednesday 13 November 2019 01:49:55 pm Felix Miata wrote:
Michael composed on 2019-11-13 08:48 (UTC-0600):
Thank you Felix!
Old mainframe guys like myself probably shouldn't be giving GPU advice ;)
From personal experience with MX Linux
(non-systemd Debian 9 stretch), I
concur with Nik and Nick (and I'll add nvidia is a twitchy little
asshat).
- Get a working system with nouveau.
Or not. Do not confuse the nouveau kernel driver with the nouveau DDX (X
and Wayland) driver. The nouveau kernel driver provides the kernel mode
setting functionality that competent DDXes depend on.
Xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is a reverse-engineered, *optional*, DDX built
only for NVidia GPUs. The default DDX is newer technology, automatically
used when: 1-it supports any non-ancient (AMD or Intel or NVidia) GPU;
2-KMS is not disabled; and 3-no optional DDX is installed. It can also be
explicitly configured to be used even though an applicable optional DDX is
available. It's provided by the xserver-org package itself. When in use,
modeset(0) will normally be found copiously in Xorg.0.log.
The modesetting DDX is in use here by all the NVidia GPUs I have that are
new enough for it to support, those newer than approximately 10-12 years of
age.