tidy up information about nvidia e6400
Signed-off-by: Leah Rowe <leah@libreboot.org>c20230710
Leah Rowe
parent
7a45b5f635
commit
d168ce3f27
|
|
@ -153,26 +153,13 @@ Nouveau(in Linux) currently broken
|
|||
----------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Nouveau is the libre driver in Linux, for Nvidia graphics. Nvidia themselves
|
||||
do not provide binary drivers anymore, for these GPUs.
|
||||
do not provide binary drivers anymore, for these GPUs. It crashes in Linux,
|
||||
when you try to start Xorg (Wayland is untested).
|
||||
|
||||
If you're booting an Nvidia variant in Linux, boot Linux with
|
||||
the `nomodeset` kernel option at boot time. This means that graphics are
|
||||
rendered in software.
|
||||
|
||||
The reason it's
|
||||
in a WIP branch is because, on this day, more testing is needed; the Linux
|
||||
nouveau driver crashed when I tried to start xorg (tested in Debian
|
||||
Stable, 11.6, with default kernel and mesa - use of `nomodeset` kernel option
|
||||
at boot time makes Xorg work just fine, when I tested it, but this means that
|
||||
all video is being rendered in software) - this is being
|
||||
investigated, and when a fix is made, either to nouveau and/or coreboot, this
|
||||
variant of the E6400 will become available in Libreboot's master branch, and
|
||||
subsequent releases.
|
||||
|
||||
The same Video BIOS Option ROM is used by Dell's boot firmware, and Xorg works
|
||||
just fine there under Linux, with the same nouveau driver. A trace could be
|
||||
performed, to see where Nouveau crashes.
|
||||
|
||||
Development discussion, for Nvidia variants of E6400, is available here:
|
||||
|
||||
<https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/14>
|
||||
|
|
@ -180,32 +167,26 @@ Development discussion, for Nvidia variants of E6400, is available here:
|
|||
OpenBSD's Nvidia driver works perfectly
|
||||
---------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
OpenBSD 7.3 was tested, on my Nvidia-model E6400, and works perfectly,
|
||||
including 2D and 3D acceleration. I *wholeheartedly* recommend OpenBSD in
|
||||
general, but it works *especially* well on these machines.
|
||||
OpenBSD 7.3 was tested, on my Nvidia-model E6400, and Xorg works OK with
|
||||
the `nv` driver.
|
||||
|
||||
<img tabindex=1 class="l" style="max-width:35%" src="https://av.libreboot.org/openbsd.jpg" /><span class="f"><img src="https://av.libreboot.org/openbsd.jpg" /></span>
|
||||
|
||||
See: <https://www.openbsd.org/>
|
||||
|
||||
OpenBSD is a complete free 4.4BSD Unix operating system focused on portability,
|
||||
security and *code correctness*. It's quite a competent OS for many purposes,
|
||||
and works very well on laptops. I use it myself for all sorts of things. If
|
||||
you're already familiar with Linux-based systems, OpenBSD will immediately
|
||||
feel familiar, and it has *the best* documentation. You can configure the
|
||||
entire system by just reading the FAQ page and *manpages*, and it's very easy
|
||||
to get a basic setup really quickly. A lot of the packages you might be familiar
|
||||
with in Linux are available in *ports*. You may have heard that Linux-based
|
||||
systems are *unix-like*, but BSD systems *are* Unix, by code heritage.
|
||||
security and *code correctness*. It's quite useable for most day to day tasks.
|
||||
|
||||
You can find information in Libreboot about BSD operating systems on the
|
||||
main guide:
|
||||
|
||||
* [BSD Operating Systems](../docs/bsd/)
|
||||
* [BSD Operating Systems](../bsd/)
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD and newer Linux (e.g. Archlinux) untested!
|
||||
--------------------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
FreeBSD has not yet been tested, as far as we know, but it should work.
|
||||
|
||||
[Testers needed! Please get in touch!](../maintain/testing.html)
|
||||
|
||||
**At the time of writing this post, FreeBSD
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -63,27 +63,13 @@ Nouveau(in Linux) currently broken
|
|||
----------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
Nouveau is the libre driver in Linux, for Nvidia graphics. Nvidia themselves
|
||||
do not provide binary drivers anymore, for these GPUs.
|
||||
do not provide binary drivers anymore, for these GPUs. It crashes in Linux,
|
||||
when you try to start Xorg (Wayland is untested).
|
||||
|
||||
If you're booting an Nvidia variant in Linux, boot Linux with
|
||||
the `nomodeset` kernel option at boot time. This means that graphics are
|
||||
rendered in software.
|
||||
|
||||
More information about Nvidia E6400 models is written in
|
||||
the [regular E6400 hardware page](../docs/hardware/e6400.md). The reason it's
|
||||
in a WIP branch is because, on this day, more testing is needed; the Linux
|
||||
nouveau driver crashed when I tried to start xorg (tested in Debian
|
||||
Stable, 11.6, with default kernel and mesa - use of `nomodeset` kernel option
|
||||
at boot time makes Xorg work just fine, when I tested it, but this means that
|
||||
all video is being rendered in software) - this is being
|
||||
investigated, and when a fix is made, either to nouveau and/or coreboot, this
|
||||
variant of the E6400 will become available in Libreboot's master branch, and
|
||||
subsequent releases.
|
||||
|
||||
The same Video BIOS Option ROM is used by Dell's boot firmware, and Xorg works
|
||||
just fine there under Linux, with the same nouveau driver. A trace could be
|
||||
performed, to see where Nouveau crashes.
|
||||
|
||||
Development discussion, for Nvidia variants of E6400, is available here:
|
||||
|
||||
<https://codeberg.org/libreboot/lbmk/issues/14>
|
||||
|
|
@ -91,23 +77,15 @@ Development discussion, for Nvidia variants of E6400, is available here:
|
|||
OpenBSD's Nvidia driver works perfectly
|
||||
---------------------------------------
|
||||
|
||||
OpenBSD 7.3 was tested, on my Nvidia-model E6400, and works perfectly,
|
||||
including 2D and 3D acceleration. I *wholeheartedly* recommend OpenBSD in
|
||||
general, but it works *especially* well on these machines.
|
||||
OpenBSD 7.3 was tested, on my Nvidia-model E6400, and Xorg works OK with
|
||||
the `nv` driver.
|
||||
|
||||
<img tabindex=1 class="l" style="max-width:35%" src="https://av.libreboot.org/openbsd.jpg" /><span class="f"><img src="https://av.libreboot.org/openbsd.jpg" /></span>
|
||||
|
||||
See: <https://www.openbsd.org/>
|
||||
|
||||
OpenBSD is a complete free 4.4BSD Unix operating system focused on portability,
|
||||
security and *code correctness*. It's quite a competent OS for many purposes,
|
||||
and works very well on laptops. I use it myself for all sorts of things. If
|
||||
you're already familiar with Linux-based systems, OpenBSD will immediately
|
||||
feel familiar, and it has *the best* documentation. You can configure the
|
||||
entire system by just reading the FAQ page and *manpages*, and it's very easy
|
||||
to get a basic setup really quickly. A lot of the packages you might be familiar
|
||||
with in Linux are available in *ports*. You may have heard that Linux-based
|
||||
systems are *unix-like*, but BSD systems *are* Unix, by code heritage.
|
||||
security and *code correctness*. It's quite useable for most day to day tasks.
|
||||
|
||||
You can find information in Libreboot about BSD operating systems on the
|
||||
main guide:
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
Loading…
Reference in New Issue