Help setting up Linux on an NVIDIA system

Siezed · 06-30-2016, 02:59 AM

Ok so are you saying hardware acceleration isn't working with my system? How do I enable it? Is that what you meant by no firmware request? Also how do I check vdpau is the output? I did use the older driver and I can't quite remember why it didn't work, but I don't think it fixed the choppy video anyways. and I tried to install a driver without using the mint driver manager and it wouldn't work, kept running into errors, I added screenshots of that a few posts back.

Emerson · 06-30-2016, 05:42 AM

I think nouveau has been improved alot and probably is the best choice for your card. You just need to run the utilities as I did to see if it is working properly. What player you are using?

Siezed · 06-30-2016, 07:26 AM

What utilities? And I'm just using whatever the website uses, I believe its just adobe flash, whatever Hulu.com uses is what most of the network websites use I believe. Is there other options?

Emerson · 06-30-2016, 07:29 AM

Utilities I ran in post #60 as an example for you. I suggest you learn the capabilities of your card, then you can make most out of it.

Siezed · 06-30-2016, 07:31 AM

So just type ~ $ glxinfo | head -n 5 ?

jamison20000e · 06-30-2016, 07:35 AM

Have you tried other "top gaming distros" not that they may work with obscure hardware and\or our abilities?

Siezed · 06-30-2016, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by jamison20000e

Have you tried other "top gaming distros" not that they may work with obscure hardware and\or our abilities?

No not really, I've tried 4 different ones, none were specifically gaming, I'll check that out though, do you recommend any in particular?

Emerson · 06-30-2016, 11:31 AM

The video drivers are same for all distros. Besides, our OP wants to watch videos, not to play games. 3D graphics and hardware video decoding are two different things. While watching videos without hardware decoding is possible it requires a strong CPU to do decoding in software.

Siezed · 06-30-2016, 12:31 PM

I'm trying out play Linux, yea they seem to all use the same drivers but the gaming distros do claim to be more automated in their setup and stuff, I just installed about 500 packages from play Linux's update center, drivers and repositories and stuff I had no idea about. Perhaps it might work. I borked up my mint install anyways trying a binary driver, booted to black screen couldn't get it to boot up again so trying different ones.

Emerson · 06-30-2016, 12:36 PM

Automated or not, with proprietary driver you will get into trouble. Any update to your system can render your driver unusable, even if it works in the beginning (which I doubt). OTOH, nouveau is future proof. https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/VideoAcceleration/

Siezed · 06-30-2016, 12:41 PM

Well play Linux didn't work very well... its messing up right off the bat, black screen with cursor right now, and it picked the wrong aspect ratio.. so far mint has worked the best, the only problem with that was crappy video playback, everything else seemed to work ok. Going to try lubuntu now.

jamison20000e · 06-30-2016, 01:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Siezed

No not really, I've tried 4 different ones, none were specifically gaming, I'll check that out though, do you recommend any in particular?

My thinking was different major ones like Debian, Fedora, Suse, Slackware and so on... not sure if they all put out gaming spins or not?

Here's a quick from search: http://www.techradar.com/us/news/sof...istros-1293840

Emerson · 06-30-2016, 01:20 PM

IMHO this is like trying different grade fuels on a car that has flat tire. The graphics card is weak and has not many features built in (see post #53). If run with binary blob it puts restrictions on Xorg upgrades. Additionally, it has a firmware bug (see dmesg).

I'd get an add-on card, there is plenty on eBay. I have a GT9500 in my drawer I can give away free, every computer repair shop probably has something to offer.

cwizardone · 06-30-2016, 11:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Emerson

Automated or not, with proprietary driver you will get into trouble. Any update to your system can render your driver unusable.....

Pure, utter nonsense. Having a difference of opinion is one thing, but that statement is FUD, plain and simple.
As has been said before, when you change the kernel, xorg or mesa, simply re-install the proprietary driver (module).

Emerson · 07-01-2016, 05:37 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

Pure, utter nonsense. Having a difference of opinion is one thing, but that statement is FUD, plain and simple.
As has been said before, when you change the kernel, xorg or mesa, simply re-install the proprietary driver (module).

Unfounded immature statement. Newer Xorg does not support older nvidia drivers, Xorg upgrade can and will make the proprietary driver unusable at some point.