Reply to post: Re: No love for open source

Reg man wraps head in 49-inch curved monitor

Hans 1

Re: No love for open source

The nouveau driver is crap with DP, it would most probably display at 1200x800 or something stupid and stretch the shit out of it ... you need a 4.9 kernel or higher, have to download the edid from the display and add a kernel parameter for it to work ... the nvidia driver should just work, though .... not sure about the AMD drivers ... I only have nvidia cards here ... I hate nvidia as much as Linus (if I run Linux it's for open source, not to be inconvenienced by a mighty download with a nice fat binary blob I dunno what it's doing), but AMD cards are excessively expensive and there are no real alternatives to those two ... to be fair, I hate broadcom as well, for the exact same reasons ....

So, I gave in and use the nvidia driver on the box with the DP-connected screen ... I would love to help fix nouveau ....

POST COMMENT House rules

Not a member of The Register? Create a new account here.

  • Enter your comment

  • Add an icon

Anonymous cowards cannot choose their icon