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Hello, world!
Following recent changes at Twitter, the new home of the X.Org Foundation is here on Mastodon. Please follow for the latest in the Linux graphics world and the freedesktop.org community. Going forward, we will no longer post to Twitter, but we're so excited to join the Fediverse!
@XOrgFoundation Welcome! Is Wayland ready yet?
@XOrgFoundation @krh Hoping to make that last section about NVIDIA go away before too much longer. 
@gfxstrand @XOrgFoundation @krh Older NVIDIA cards are common on cheap PCs that are otherwise excellent for Linux. What's the plan for those?
@underlap @XOrgFoundation @krh What's your definition of "older" and what's your expectation? Most NVIDIA cards released in the last 20 years work with nouveau to one extent or another. They're not going to suddenly stop working.
@gfxstrand @XOrgFoundation @krh I'm using a 10 year old Quadro K4000 with mixed results, especially on suspend/resume. Details here: https://gist.github.com/glyn/b61d087f08f9ed0e0ca051228ed1676a
My expectation is that graphics cards manufactured in the last 10 years or so should just work with nouveau and any modern distro.
I guess my card "does work with nouvea to one extent or another" - I currently have a stable system, but I dare not distro hop.
@underlap The kernel issues are, unfortunately, very real. The nouveau kernel driver is getting more stable over time but there's still a lot we don't fully understand about some of those cards. Unfortunately, that's the reality with reverse engineering.
Fortunately, for everything Turing and later, we have NVIDIA's "real" firmware and their own kernel driver source to use as a reference. Hopefully long-term the situation with those will get much better.
