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nvidia - 64-bit

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Amiwell79Distro Maintainer
Posted 8 days ago
it happens after startup
pixiepixieMember
Posted 7 days ago

deadwood wrote:

@deadwood - @Amiwell79

Does it happen right after boot or after screen resolution change?

@pixie

The non-accelerated driver is a temporary stage - it's not going to be used for anything else then initial tests. If all goes well we should get 2D acceleration on all supported cards in a couple of days, so get a supported card (up to GTX 750) and test how it works for you.


Sadly i do not own such a card, only a 2070 ti.
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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 6 days ago
First signs of life from 3D driver!

axrt.org/media/nouveau_04.jpeg
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Jeff1138Member
Posted 6 days ago
Hi,

Well done, I take it this could take us to OpenGL3 or even OpenGL4?
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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 6 days ago
I don't know the exact level - you'd have to check the documentation for Mesa version 20.x on which APIs are supported.
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FaroxMember
Posted 6 days ago
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
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Jeff1138Member
Posted 6 days ago
Thanks
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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 5 days ago
Making progress ^^ (note video cards used in this test)

axrt.org/media/nouveau_05.jpeg
Edited by deadwood on 30-06-2026 11:46, 5 days ago
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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 5 days ago
@Korban

Please for now remove from your test set any cards that have DisplayPort connector.
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ntromansSenior Member
Posted 5 days ago
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.
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KorbanNewbie
Posted 2 days ago

deadwood wrote:

@deadwood - @Korban

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


Not a problem, will do Smile
Time permitting I'll do more testing later tonight.
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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 2 days ago
@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)
Edited by deadwood on 04-07-2026 01:19, 2 days ago
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KorbanNewbie
Posted 1 day ago
@deadwood

Success with a GTX 960 Grin

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 Smile
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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 1 day ago
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).
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KorbanNewbie
Posted 13 hours ago
Had to wrestle with my case a bit to get the card to fit, but 980 next.
For now though:
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Amiwell79Distro Maintainer
Posted 10 hours ago
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