Nouveau: Accelerated Open Source driver for nVidia cards

The nouveau project aims to build high-quality, free/libre software drivers for nVidia cards. “Nouveau” [nuvo] is the French word for “new”. Nouveau is composed of a Linux kernel KMS driver (nouveau), Gallium3D drivers in Mesa, and the Xorg DDX (xf86-video-nouveau). The kernel components have also been ported to NetBSD.

Current Status

2D/3D acceleration supported on all GPUs (except for TU11x); see FeatureMatrix for details.
Video decoding acceleration supported on most pre-Maxwell cards; see VideoAcceleration for details.
Support for manual performance level selection (also known as "reclocking") on GM10x Maxwell, Kepler and Tesla G94-GT218 GPUs. Available in /sys/kernel/debug/dri/0/pstate
Little hope of reclocking becoming available for GM20x and newer GPUs as firmware now needs to be signed by NVIDIA to have the necessary access.

News

Jan, 2019: TU10x acceleration support (with redistributable signed firmware) merged in Linux 5.6.
Jan, 2019: Support for Turing merged into Linux 5.0.
Nov, 2018: Support for HDMI 2.0 high-speed clocks merged into Linux 4.20 (GM200+ hardware only).
Aug, 2018: Support for Volta merged into Linux 4.19.

Software

Linux Kernel	git
libdrm	git
Mesa	git
xf86-video-nouveau	git

Contacting the Team

IRC: #nouveau on freenode. Logs, or IrcChatLogs
Mailing lists: nouveau, dri-devel, mesa-dev

Common Tasks

Installing Nouveau
Multiple monitors: Randr12 and MultiMonitorDesktop
Prime/Optimus: Optimus
VDPAU/XvMC: Video decoding acceleration
KernelModuleParameters

Get Involved

Join us on IRC
Become a developer
Run tests on your hardware
Donate hardware
Available tasks on Trello, CTS issues on Trello, Old ToDo list

Report Bugs

Development/Debugging

Development resources
envytools: RE tools and docs

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