nvidia-legacy
This repository includes patched legacy nVIDIA drivers for newer Linux kernels (5.8 - 6.8). Works on all Linux distros. (by MeowIce)
nvidia-tweaks
A collection of tweaks and improvements to the proprietary NVIDIA driver (Linux) (by ventureoo)
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- | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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nvidia-legacy
Posts with mentions or reviews of nvidia-legacy.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-14.
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Turn off nvidia graphic card?
Ok so i found a way, a pretty easy one indeed, to do it. You have to install nvidia drivers. You could say that it easy, and you would be wrong. It needs an old nvidia version that is not supported. The graphic card is an nvidia gt 330M which means you need nvidia driver 340.x version. But that version, if you try to install from nvidia page, doesn't work with linux kernel higher than 4.4. So i found this https://github.com/MeowIce/nvidia-legacy . This repository has a version of that nvidia driver with support for 5.10+ kernel. So you just have to install the .run and then use nvidia-smi -i 0000:xx:00.0 -pm 0 where xx is your nvidia card pci ID (you can find it with lspci | grep NVIDIA. After that you will have your graphic card turned off.
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Desktop Freezing.
Boot with nouveau and then download the 340.108 branch from here (you’ll need some dev tools and kernel-headers/source installed), build yourself the driver and reboot.
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Nvidia and Nouveau
I really wish nouveau were in a better state. I have a positively ancient laptop with a 8600M nvidia chipset that just will not reliably operate with the nouveau driver.
Instead, I have to use https://github.com/MeowIce/nvidia-legacy to patch and install the proprietary drivers.
nvidia-tweaks
Posts with mentions or reviews of nvidia-tweaks.
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I am making a Hybrid Linux distributive
Nvidia driver tweaks(Github source code. nvidia-tweaks tuned package by Hybrid Linux. Origial nvidia-tweaks package from AUR)
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 Mobile not performing while gaming due to `SW thermal slowdown` being active
I've tried applying this set of Nvidia tweaks but they didn't do anything and all seem to correlate to various terminal commands I've tried from scavanging other forums.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing nvidia-legacy and nvidia-tweaks you can also consider the following projects:
nvidia-gpu-off - The definitive guide to completely turn off your Nvidia dedicated GPU on Optimus laptops running Linux
Fedora-40-Post-Install-Guide - Things to do after installing Fedora 40
yum-packaging-nvidia-plugin - NVIDIA yum and dnf plugins for RHEL driver packages
nvidia-exec - GPU switching without login out for Nvidia Optimus laptops under Linux
open-gpu-kernel-modules - NVIDIA Linux open GPU kernel module source
Single-GPU-Passthrough-for-Dummies - Non-intimidating guide to create a KVM GPU Passthrough via libvirt/virt-manager on systems with only one GPU.