DragonFly 5.0 released!

Justin Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Mon Oct 16 13:20:46 PDT 2017


No, I mean the proprietary binary-only driver that NVIDIA supplies.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html

Nouveau is specifically open source.

https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/

I don't think nouveau works on DragonFly... but I haven't tried it.

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Carsten Mattner
<carstenmattner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/16/17, Justin Sherrill <justin at shiningsilence.com> wrote:
>> DragonFly 5 does include the vga_switcheroo module which works for
>> some Mac models that have multiple video cards, but I don't know if
>> that applies to you here.
>>
>> Note that NVIDIA keeps their drivers private, so there's no
>> accelerated video under NVIDIA on DragonFly.  The default vesa driver
>> should perform very well, however.
>
> Do you mean Nouveau?



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