| From: Nicholas Krause via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | I thought NVIDIA have open sourced the drivers outside of userspace for 2000 | series and up. The git repo is here: | https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules. Not sure if which distro | your using has the packages for it, | but I would be surprised outside of that if it doesn't work fine for newer | GPUs. That's if you install the | driver package for it if it exists. It can help nouveau. I don't know if nouveau uses it yet. But this is important for managing clocking and power on recent NVidia cards. Nouveau doesn't work for me. This is on a card so old that the new stuff isn't needed. So I use the proprietary drive. And my card is now "legacy"; the legacy proprietary drive won't support wayland. That means my computer will shortly be unable to run current Linux distros. A replacement video card (AMD) is worth more than the computer at this point. Summary: good use of an nvidia card requires proprietary drivers. nvidia had unconscionable restrictions that made nouveau impractical. They have fixed that. At least that's how I understand things.