it happens after startup

Sadly i do not own such a card, only a 2070 ti.

First signs of life from 3D driver!

Hi,

Well done, I take it this could take us to OpenGL3 or even OpenGL4?

I don't know the exact level - you'd have to check the documentation for Mesa version 20.x on which APIs are supported.

I don't know if this the exact version but...
Mesa 20.0.0 release note
https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/20.0.0.html#mesa-20-0-0-release-notes-2020-02-19

Thanks

Making progress ^^ (note video cards used in this test)

@Korban

Please for now remove from your test set any cards that have DisplayPort connector.

2D tests with GForce 8400:

*System information*
|Processor count|8|
|Processor #0|Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790 CPU @ 3.60GHz - 3838 Mhz|
|Processor #1|(null) - 0 Mhz|
|Processor #2|(null) - 0 Mhz|
|Processor #3|(null) - 0 Mhz|
|Processor #4|(null) - 0 Mhz|
|Processor #5|(null) - 0 Mhz|
|Processor #6|(null) - 0 Mhz|
|Processor #7|(null) - 0 Mhz|
|Available memory|16474763kB|
|Video card|0x10de:0x6e4 NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] PCIe|
|Screen information| 1024x768x24|


*PixelArray benchmark 1024x576*
||Test||Blits/s||MB/s||
| WritePixelArray RECTFMT_RGB FW|1258.31|2831|
| WritePixelArray RECTFMT_RGB HW|2310.67|5198|
| WritePixelArray RECTFMT_ARGB FW|1233.69|2775|
| WritePixelArray RECTFMT_ARGB HW|2263.75|5093|
| WritePixelArray RECTFMT_RGBA FW|877.44|1974|
| WritePixelArray RECTFMT_RGBA HW|1641.80|3694|
| WritePixelArray RECTFMT_RGB16PC FW|864.29|1944|
| WritePixelArray RECTFMT_RGB16PC HW|1621.25|3647|
| WritePixelArray RECTFMT_LUT8 FW|48.33|108|
| WritePixelArray RECTFMT_LUT8 HW|68.41|153|
| ReadPixelArray RECTFMT_RGB FW|844.13|1899|
| ReadPixelArray RECTFMT_RGB HW|1592.86|3583|
| ReadPixelArray RECTFMT_ARGB FW|1283.93|2888|
| ReadPixelArray RECTFMT_ARGB HW|2366.12|5323|
| ReadPixelArray RECTFMT_RGBA FW|871.67|1961|
| ReadPixelArray RECTFMT_RGBA HW|1644.15|3699|
| ReadPixelArray RECTFMT_RGB16PC FW|857.50|1929|
| ReadPixelArray RECTFMT_RGB16PC HW|1623.00|3651|
| WritePixelArrayAlpha RECTFMT_ARGB FW|451.57|1016|
| WritePixelArrayAlpha RECTFMT_ARGB HW|864.73|1945|


*Text benchmark 1024x576*
||Test||Blits/s||MB/s||
|JAM1, NON-ANTIALIASED, LEN 100|205.54|462|
|JAM2, NON-ANTIALIASED, LEN 100|280.13|630|
|COMPLEMENT, NON-ANTIALIASED, LEN 100|182.62|410|
|JAM1, ANTIALIASED, LEN 100|162.14|364|
|JAM2, ANTIALIASED, LEN 100|225.97|508|
|COMPLEMENT, ANTIALIASED, LEN 100|198.81|447|
|JAM1, NON-ANTIALIASED, LEN 5|195.09|438|
|JAM2, NON-ANTIALIASED, LEN 5|33.82|76|
|COMPLEMENT, NON-ANTIALIASED, LEN 5|11.05|24|
|JAM1, ANTIALIASED, LEN 5|6.13|13|
|JAM2, ANTIALIASED, LEN 5|31.93|71|
|COMPLEMENT, ANTIALIASED, LEN 5|8.66|19|


All feels very fasy and smooth :-)

Cheers,
Nigel.

Not a problem, will do
Time permitting I'll do more testing later tonight.

@Korban

Please try this build and please try GTX 9xx as well. Note: driver is UNSTABLE, but it is good enough to boot my GTX 950 into Wanderer.

https://axrt.org/development/nouveau.hidd-20260702-49.1.zip

To use the driver on GTX 9xx cards you will have to first install NVidia firmware:

https://axrt.org/development/NVidia-firmware.zip

NVidia directory goes into DEVS:Firmware

This build should also unblock cards with DisplayPort connector (you can still use only VGA or DVI to output signal, but cards having DisplayPort should no longer hang during boot)

@deadwood

Success with a GTX 960

Id planned to test a bunch of other cards tonight, but my excitement over the idea of potentially being able to use my gtx 980 for AROS inspired me to rebuild a dedicated AROS box, so didnt end up having time (its 2 a.m. here).
Great fun though. Ended up putting an i5-7600k that I overclocked to 4.7ghz/16GB system with ssd. Not exactly state of the art in general pc terms, but as a long time Amiga and AROS enthusiast having even this sort of single threaded raw grunt is a heck of a lot of fun. Will absolutely be getting onto making some AROS related videos in the near future (been wanting to for a long time).
One think I did notice however is that there appears to be a 16GB limit it total. With 16GB RAM and a 2GB VRAM card for eg. only 14GB of system RAM is available.
Not that its a problem, just an observation.

Ill test a lot more cards tomorrow and post a bunch of gfxbench results.
Thanks for your work. Im having a lot of fun

Great to hear it worked for you and that you have fun with your new AROS box. I'm not aware of 16GB mem limit, I think the limit was much higher. I added this to TODO to invastigate later this year.

I'm looking forward to your videos of AROS. Please keep in mind though that this driver is not stable - it will eventually freeze your system and also it can have impact on benchark results. I'd suggest waiting until I stabize the driver and for now just test all the cards you have for "booting" (which should be stable in this driver).

Had to wrestle with my case a bit to get the card to fit, but 980 next.
For now though:

Good News