Installing Nouveau on your Linux computer

There are two ways of installing Nouveau on your Linux computer. The most recommended way is to use your distribution-provided packages. If those are outdated or buggy, you may also recompile Nouveau from source.

Nouveau is incompatible with NVIDIA's proprietary driver. If you want to use Nouveau, you first need to remove the proprietary driver from your system.

Compiling Nouveau from source

The nouveau kernel driver is part of the upstream Linux kernel. Build instructions for the Linux kernel can be found here.

The OpenGL and Vulkan drivers are part of the Mesa project. To get the nouveau drivers, configure Mesa with -Dgallium-drivers=zink,nouveau and -Dvulkan-drivers=nouveau. Detailed build instructions for Mesa can be found here.