▲ 324 ▼ NVIDIA Drops Pascal Support On Linux, Causing Chaos On Arch Linux (hackaday.com) submitted 10 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev 154 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com -13 points 10 months ago (2 children) thanks to work by Valve AMD did nothing to make their drivers better, Vale did. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago Making them open to contributions was the first step, but ok I won't engage in this petty tribalism. The topic was about nvidia's closed source drives. Valve couldn't do the same for pascal GPUs. Nobody but nvidia has the reclocking firmware, so even the reverse engineered nouveau NVK drivers are stuck at boot clock speeds. permalink fedilink source parent [–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago AMD did nothing to make their drivers better, Vale did. That's literally the point of open source though, both AMD and Intel rely on open source drivers, so anybody can fix a flaw they encounter without having to rely on the company to "consider allocating resources towards a fix for legacy hardware" permalink fedilink source parent
[–] kopasz7@sh.itjust.works 21 points 10 months ago Making them open to contributions was the first step, but ok I won't engage in this petty tribalism. The topic was about nvidia's closed source drives. Valve couldn't do the same for pascal GPUs. Nobody but nvidia has the reclocking firmware, so even the reverse engineered nouveau NVK drivers are stuck at boot clock speeds. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 11 points 10 months ago AMD did nothing to make their drivers better, Vale did. That's literally the point of open source though, both AMD and Intel rely on open source drivers, so anybody can fix a flaw they encounter without having to rely on the company to "consider allocating resources towards a fix for legacy hardware" permalink fedilink source parent