I dont really want to use that proprietary driver, but I plan on getting an old Thinkpad W530 that has some probably pretty slow NVIDIA GPU. Do you know if these are well supported by Noveau? Would be great!

I want to play around with coreboot, flashing heads onto that laptop and all.

  • @[email protected]English
    5•1 year ago

    Looks like that laptop has a Kepler generation GPU (NVE0). Accourding to the Nouveau feature matrix, these cards are almost completely supported (you might have power management issues and need external firmware to access the built-in accelerated video decoders). Switching back and forth between onboard video and the nvidia card may have additional issues.