Real life status of nouveau support for selected cards
This page aims to track users of nouveau, their cards and the quality of support for each such card.
The sections 2D and 3D aims at
Sane 2D/3D output
Stability
Visible corruption
To get the PMC.BOOT value, just grep the dmesg:
dmesg | grep "generation card"
In 'Market name' please include ether name of card manufacturer if its desktop card, or name of notebook you use.
Contact info is optional, feel free not to include it
| Code name (PMC.BOOT) | Market name | Contact info | 2D | 3D | Suspend | Reclocking | Outputs | Software version (kernel/DDX/Mesa) | Remarks | |
| NV05 (0x20154000) | MSI MS-8806 (desktop card) | Albert Pool | works, mouse cursor flickers somewhat | works, with very limited capabilities, occasional nouveau_vieux_dri.so segfault | works | works | VGA | 2.6.38 / git Sept. '11 / 7.10.2 | ||
| NV11 (0x011100b2) | GeForce2 MX200 (onbaord desktop video) | Salah Coronya | Framebuffer works. X severely distorted with acceleration. OK without | Untested | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN | VGA | 3.3.2 / 0.0.16 / 7.11 | nouveau can do 1336 x 768; blob can't get past 1024 x 768. | |
| NV18 (0x018500c1) | GeForce4 MX 4000 (desktop card) | Calvin Kruse < calvin.ckruse@gmail.com > | works, stable | works, Some instability 1 2 3 | UNKNOWN | N/A | VGA, S-VIDEO | UNKNOWN | It runs (unlike the blob - "no card found"). Thanks for the support :) | |
| NV34 (0x034200b1) | XFX GeForce FX 5200 (desktop card) | Albert Pool | works, stable | works, some artifacts or crashes | suspend works, hibernate not always | UNKNOWN | VGA, TV-out untested, DVI 7 | 2.6.38 / git Sept. '11 / 7.10.2 | Actually Compiz works better than using the blob. | |
| NV36 (0x436200a1) | Asus GeForce FX 5700 AGP (desktop card) | Nick Bowler < nbowler@draconx.ca > | works OK, minor corruption, some apps very slow | works OK | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN | VGA, TV-out untested, DVI | 3.2.9 / git Mar. 2012 / 8.0.1 | ||
| NV4E (0x04e000a2) | GeForce 6150 LE (onboard desktop video) | Salah Coronya | Works since 3.7-rc1 (Bug 46557) | Works since 3.7-rc1 | Doesn't work, but neither does the blob | UNKNOWN | VGA | 3.7-rc1 / 0.0.16_pre20120322 / 8.0.4 | Detects phantom DVI and TV-out output. Bug 31961 | |
| NV43 (0x043000a4) | XFX GeForce 6600 GT AGP (desktop card) | Albert Pool | works, stable | works, stable | works | not working fine in 3.0 kernel but working in git Dec. '11 | 2xDVI, TV-out untested | git Nov. '11 / git Sept. '11 / 7.10.2 | ||
| NV44 (0x044a00a2) | GeForce 7100 GS PCI-E (desktop card) | Matt Graham < danceswithcrows@gmail.com > | works, mouse flickers a bit | works | works | UNKNOWN | VGA untested, DVI, TV-out | 3.3.2 / git 2012-04-15 / git 2012-04-15 | Minor graphics corruption in 3D, but better than the blob. Corruption may be hardware-related; waiting on spare card to see. | |
| NV50 (0x086900a2) | Quadro NVS 140M (Thinkpad T61) | Vladimir Laskov < samflanker@gmail.com > | works | UNKNOWN | works | UNKNOWN | VGA | 2.6.32/1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5/7.7.1 | ||
| NV84 (0x084c00a2) | GeForce FX 570M (Thinkpad T61p) | Grant Diffey < gdiffey@gmail.com > | works, stable some font corruption | works, mostly stable | works | UNKNOWN | LVDS works fine 1920x1200 VGA untested | 3.4-rc2-rt/0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1/7.11.2-1 | gmail seems pathological for font corruption most everywhere else it's ok also has phantom DVI output 7 | |
| NV86 (0x086100a2) | GeForce 8500 GT (desktop card) | Sven Joachim < svenjoac@gmx.de > | works, stable | works, mostly stable | works | UNKNOWN | VGA | 3.1-rc6/0.0.16/7.12 | GPU lockups in 3D with kernels 2.6.39 and 3.0. Stable with 3.1 | |
| NV86 (0x086700a2) | GeForce 8400M GS 256MB (Acer Aspire 5720G) | Maxim Levitsky < maximlevitsky@gmail.com > | works, stable, small corruptions | works, very stable 4 | works 5 | Fine (needs mupuf's patches) | LVDS, VGA, DVI 5, TV-OUT wip | 3.0.0/0.0.16 /7.12 | Possible to reduce power usage by 5W (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37922). Nvidia ctxprog helped with unigine crashes and maybe more, confirmed by another user 4 | |
| NV86 (0x086700a2) | GeForce 8400M GS 256MB (HP Pavilion dv6730ed) | Albert Pool | works, stable | works, quite stable | works | UNKNOWN | LVDS, VGA, HDMI (untested), TV-out (not working) | 2.6.38/0.0.16/7.10.2 | See above ^ | |
| I haven't yet had lockups with 3.0 but haven't run that kernel much | ||||||||||
| NV86 (0x086f00a2) | Quadro NVS 290 | Rick van der Zwet < info@rickvanderzwet.nl > | works mostly. Not usable for daily use, corruptions on refresh. | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN | DMS-59 (2xDVI) | KERNEL: 3.0.0-15-generic DDX: 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1 MESA: 7.11-0ubuntu3 | Used in a Dell Dimension C521 together with Ubuntu 11.10 amd64. | |
| NV96 (0x096000c1) | GeForce 9500 GT (desktop card) | Diego Viola < diego.viola@gmail.com > | works, stable | works, very stable | works | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN | ||
| NV96 (0x096980c1) | GeForce GT 120M (Asus K70IO) | Emil Velikov < emil.l.velikov@gmail.com > | works, stable, no corruption | works, stable, no corruption | works | UNKNOWN | LVDS, VGA untested, HDMI 6 | UNKNOWN | Mainly desktop usage and movies + occasional gaming | |
| NVC1 (0x0c1d00a1) | Quadro 1000m (ThinkPad W520) | Victor Unegbu < victoru@gmail.com > | works, stable | appears to work, seems stable | works, unable to adjust screen brightness once resumed | UNKNOWN | LVDS, DP, VGA ( untested) | 3.1.0-g46797c2/0.0.16/7.11 | Using modules from the nouveau 2.6 kernel. | |
| NVC1 (?) | EVGA GeForce GT 430 (desktop card) | Albert Pool | works | not working with Linux 3.0 yet | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN | VGA, DVI, HDMI | 3.0/0.0.16/7.10.2 | ||
| NVCE (?) | EVGA GeForce GTX 560 (desktop) | Michael Armijo | works | works, slow | UNKNOWN | works except for memory, unstable (crashes often) | DVI, HDMI | 3.7.1-2.1-LIBRE/20121228-1 (git)/9.0.1 | GPU is only stable at default boot speeds (50MHz core, 101 MHz shader, 135 MHz memory) | |
| NV50 (0x096400a1) | ?GeForce 9600M GS Rev. A1 (on Samsung P35 Laptop) | Matthias Nagel | works, stable | UNKNOWN | works | unknown | LVDS (internal), VGA, HDMI (audio works, too) | 3.6.11-gentoo/?/9.0.0 | Hot-plugging of external monitors is detected during runtime and can be configured though xrandr, but the output is actually only enabled, if the external monitor has already been connected during boot | |
| NVE6 (?) | EVGA GeForce GTX 660 (desktop) | Michael Armijo | works | works, unstable | UNKNOWN | UNKNOWN | DVI, HDMI, DP | 3.8.0-RC5/20130125-1 (git)/9.0.2 | So far good 2D and 3D performance. 3D is very unstable, but that's expected. |
1 Freezes with rss-glx package (gentoo)
2 Can't get anything 3d to run in wine
3 Occasionally lockups with fs bzflag
4 Had random hangs (especially unigine tropics), issue seems to be solved
5 DVI output sometimes dies after resume from ram bugreport
6 Lacking sound over HDMI
7 DVI output reported which doesn't exist