Upgraded Video Card
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I had a NVIDIA Geforce GTX 560 Ti in my desktop computer that had a dying fan, so I saved up some money and upgraded to the GTX 970. Unfortunately, Trisquel is now having trouble with the new card. I use the Cinnamon DE and can only get it to boot into Software Rendering Mode. Which, okay, things work, but it's not what I had. I can't even boot into the "Trisquel" environment--I get a black screen and then it drops me back at the login screen.
glxinfo | grep "direct rendering" returns a "Yes", but when I look at inxi -Fxz I get:
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GM204 [Geforce GTX 970]
bus-ID: 01:00.0
X.Org: 1.15.1
drivers: (unloaded: fbdev, vesa) FAILED: noveau
Resolution: 1920X1080@60.0hz
GLX Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.4, 128 bits)
GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.1.3
Direct Rendering: Yes
I don't know why nouveau won't load. Is it because the two cards are of different classes and the driver doesn't know what to do? Or is there something else I'm missing?
I had gtx970, this one works only with non-free drivers and non-free signed firmware. I sold that crap and bought gtx770 (which is works with bugs with proprietary drivers) with full 4gb, insted of gtx970's 3,5gb. I running Nouveau drivers. Next time I will buy i3-i5-i7 5gen with Intel Iris GPU. Kepler cards can be reclocked with modern kernel, out of the box.
You will never be able to run with minimum performance Maxwell 2gen GPUs only using free software.
FAILED, because probably you need non-free signed firmware. If you want to run free software friendly hardware, get some info before purchase. (Obviously, Trisquel doesn't include any kind of non-free software, including Linux kernel)
Nvidia fooled their costumers, downgrading their propietary drivers performance for Kepler cards too soon (1-2 years of support)(It is much cheaper downgrade performance through drivers and later recommend to get the latest drivers, that make more powerful chips). And fooled the costumers with fake marketing of fake 4gb gddr5 memory on gtx970 card. Raged costumers contacted to Nvidia, and Nvidia said: "deal with it".
This is not Nouveau's problem, no driver problem, this problem is of missing non-free firmware.
Sorry, I think that you downgraded your hardware. If you do not want to spend a lot of money, just buy some cpu with intel gpu(not Skylake), or gtx650, do not buy Maxwell(1gen like gtx750ti, or 2 gen like gtx9xx). 1gen reclocks the core, but still need memory reclock.
If you do not like to be fooled by megacorporations, just do not buy their products.
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Thanks, I figured that was a possibility, that nouveau wasn't yet able to handle the card (the website shows a lot of progress, but more to be made). H-node and the direct rendering thing suggested to me that it would work, but I misinterpreted.
I know my options now.
