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).

Current Status

2D/3D acceleration supported on all cards; see FeatureMatrix for details.
Experimental support for performance level selection (also known as "reclocking") on Kepler and GT21x GPUs. Boot with nouveau.pstate=1 to enable. Expect low 3D performance Fermi GPUs.
GM200+ only provides modesetting, no acceleration of any kind.

News

Jul, 2015: Fermi and newer expose OpenGL 4.1 in Mesa 11.
Apr, 2015: GM107 acceleration support merged into 4.1
Dec, 2014: GT215/GT216/GT218 reclocking code merged into 3.19
Dec, 2014: GM204 modesetting support merged into 3.19
Oct, 2014: Roy Spliet gave a presentation at XDC2014 about his EVoC project: Project REclock.

Software

Linux Kernel	git	4.2
libdrm	git	2.4.61
Mesa	git	11.0
xf86-video-nouveau	git	1.0.11

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

Report Bugs

Development/Debugging

Development resources
envytools: RE tools and docs

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