23 Jan
2022
23 Jan
'22
6:05 p.m.
E. Liddell composed on 2022-01-23 10:40 (UTC-0500):
...the video driver is the most likely to be
responsible.
Do we know which driver "the" would be?
I'd recommend the nvidia proprietary driver over
nouveau in this case,
because nouveau is reverse-engineered and doesn't always handle all
the capabilities of every card correctly.
There is no "the" nouveau driver. There is:
1-nouveau kernel device driver (module), which ships with each kernel.
2-nouveau DDX display driver for X, upstream provided by xf86-video-nouveau,
provided in Debian by xserver-xorg-video-nouveau.
#2 is reverse-engineered, and optional. The upstream default display driver,
modesetting DIX, is not reverse-engineered, is newer technology, like the nouveau
DDX depends on the nouveau kernel driver, is FOSS, and is the display driver I use
on all of my NVidia GPUs. Ordinary users don't all need the edge-case capabilities
that FOSS doesn't support.
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