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posted by LaminatorX on Saturday June 21 2014, @05:40PM   Printer-friendly
from the Clock-it-to-me dept.

Nouveau team added initial support for NV40 (GeForce 6/7), NV50 (GeForce 8100/8200/8300) and NVE0 (Kepler, GeForce 600/700). By default, the DRM driver still boot at the lowest clock speed, but it can be changed using a sysfs file.

Since it doesn't really support fan control in Kepler cards, when the card is set to the highest performance state, fans will speed to 100% and screen bugs will appear making the system almost unusable. Despite that fact, this is still good news.

Link to the article: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nouveau_try_linux316 [phoronix.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 21 2014, @07:07PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 21 2014, @07:07PM (#58491)

    >By default, the DRM driver still boot at the lowest clock speed
    I'm not sure I'm comfortable with the idea of letting the driver of a Japanese pop band [wikipedia.org] set the clock speeds of my videocard.

    • (Score: 3, Insightful) by RamiK on Sunday June 22 2014, @08:19AM

      by RamiK (1813) on Sunday June 22 2014, @08:19AM (#58623)

      I'll have you know Japanese clocks keep time just as well as any clock.

      --
      compiling...
  • (Score: 2) by black6host on Saturday June 21 2014, @08:18PM

    by black6host (3827) on Saturday June 21 2014, @08:18PM (#58509) Journal

    I've RTFA and while they mention that fan speed jumps to 100% it appears to me that the only downside is that it's loud. The article does not seem to link fan speed to screen artifacts as the summary suggests. Am I missing something?

    • (Score: 1) by HyperQuantum on Saturday June 21 2014, @09:41PM

      by HyperQuantum (2673) on Saturday June 21 2014, @09:41PM (#58526)

      The article links screen artifacts to the highest performance state, which also corresponds with the fan running at its maximum velocity.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 22 2014, @08:42AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 22 2014, @08:42AM (#58630)

    There is the rovclock utility. It can set core and memory clocks.