may the geforce be with you
GM
Gonna try running the new open source vulkan driver for an RTX 2080 card on NixOS today.
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nvidia-vulkan-driver-nvk-documentation/42900
Discussion
It was a reckless success!
```
$ vulkaninfo | grep -i "deviceName\|driverID"
WARNING: NVK is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.
deviceName = TU102
driverID = DRIVER_ID_MESA_NVK
$ doas inxi -G
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S GT1 [UHD Graphics 770] driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA TU102 [GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Rev. A] driver: nouveau v: kernel
Display: server: X.org 1.21.1.11 driver: loaded: nouveau note: n/a (using device driver)
resolution:
Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable for root.
```
so, been following this - is nvidia finally open sourcing the drivers or is this yet another community reverse engineering?
also, why the hell is it that - at least for me, two times out of three when i get a recent AMD Radeon GPU that only about one in 20 versions of the linux kernel even work with it at all? the driver is open source, super fishy if you ask me
It's foss devs doing the heavy lifting for a billion dollar corp as usual
LETS GO!