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; see FeatureMatrix for details.
• Automatic reclocking available for Turing and newer through GSP firmware.
• 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, GP10x and GV100 as firmware now needs to be signed by NVIDIA to have the necessary access.

News

• Nov, 2023: AD10x and GSP support merged in Linux 6.7.
• Jan, 2021: GA10x kernel mode setting support merged in Linux 5.11.
• 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

Contacting the Team

• IRC: #nouveau on OFTC. 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

• TroubleShooting
• Bugs
• FAQ

Development/Debugging

• Development resources
• envytools: RE tools and docs

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