legacy Nvidia will not be installed from installer yes, it will use nouveau open-source driver.
And also our nvidia-installer-dkms script will not install legacy, this must be done by hand then if you want to go for it.
How suitable is it for average daily use and what are its possible disadvantages?
nouveau driver improves a lot in the last time, you will be happy with it for daily usage, only gaming will be not that nice.
Ich dachte, der Nachteil von Open Source-Treibern liegt in Spielen, aber ich spiele nicht wirklich auf dem PC, also hat es keinen wirklichen Einfluss auf mich. Danke fĆ¼r Ihre Antwort. Ich habe das zu diesem Thema gefunden. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia-nouveau-2019&num=1
my wife using an older thinkpad with legacy nvidia and it runs nicely for watching video and streams but yea no gaming at her side
Needs only a little setup:
I also have a Thinkpad, but it has an Intel video card in it. I used Geforce a long time ago, not under Linux at all so far.
- video card is required ( not present on Xeon )
- may be the fans & sound near these server
- check also power supply
You can install nvidia drivers with:
yay -S nvidia-390xx-dkms nvidia-390xx-utils lib32-nvidia-390xx-utils
The AUR packages are so far maintained, but might not be in the future. The drivers should work well with kernels 5.9 and 5.4 (LTS). When there is a major release update to kernels or xorg, you should be careful of updating. Use timeshift
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Other than that, I think youāll be fine.
There is a decent chance that the 605 works sufficiently well with nouveau. I would try these open drivers first. See the feature matrix here: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html
It is super slow anyways
Of course, if you can replace the GPU card then this is a non-issue. Replace it with a cheap AMD card and away you go.
What do you mean by that?
What do you mean by these?
I canāt replace the GPU card yet. What is the possible disadvantage of this?
I mean that the 605 is a very slow graphics card/chip, compared with more modern chips.
Therefore, you might just use the free and open nouveau driver (if it works) instead of the closed nvidia driver.
and as i say older nvidia GPU running quite nice with nouveau driver, even better if you use the modsetting one from kernel without installing xf86-video-nouveau
Yep. In my old computer I have a 460 (same arch as the 605 AFAIK) which works very well with nouveau and also has acceptable performance in simple games. Power saving does not work 100% correctly but it is passively cooled so not a big issue.
Thank you for your helpful comments. This confirms that at least for work and possibly older classic games, I can safely use this machine with EndeavourOS.
In the meantime, the offline installation took place, which went smoothly, but of course I tried it on a live system before that. I have to say that the Nvidia Nouveau driver also does its thing, considering that I donāt play, itās suitable for average daily use. So far, Iām also happy with the machine and the EOS running on it, and although it has 16GB of RAM, I still created a swap partition.
There is a less annoying bug that when you click restart when you log out of Xfce, the machine sometimes does not reboot but shuts down. What could be the reason for this?