I got LUbuntu installed on an iMac circa 2013. Is it worth trying to get the NVIDIA driver running, or is modern neuveau adequate. The main 3D I might do on there is a little light CAD. Mostly OpenScad. aaron
I would probably suggest trying out the proprietary drivers. It should be easy to do that these days: https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install-the-nvidia-drivers-on-ubuntu-20-04-fo... Could you run this to let us know what model of GPU you are using? nvidia-smi --query-gpu=name --format=csv,noheader or lspci | grep VGA ~ Jared On Oct 2 2020 2:04 PM, Aaron Birenboim wrote:
I got LUbuntu installed on an iMac circa 2013. Is it worth trying to get the NVIDIA driver running, or is modern neuveau adequate.
The main 3D I might do on there is a little light CAD. Mostly OpenScad.
aaron
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Aaron, In my experience, nouveau is adaquate, but to really use your Nvidia hardware, you're gonna want to get the native Nvidia drivers going. You won't be disappointed in the performance improvements. Will On 10/2/20 2:04 PM, Aaron Birenboim wrote:
I got LUbuntu installed on an iMac circa 2013. Is it worth trying to get the NVIDIA driver running, or is modern neuveau adequate.
The main 3D I might do on there is a little light CAD. Mostly OpenScad.
aaron
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I think the 2013 uses a 9400 nvidia which the standard drivers for nvidia will work. But if the Mac mini is a 320 nvidia that needs the legacy nvidia drivers. Not sure those work on the 20.04 Ubuntu variances. Might not be worth it for the old drivers. On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 10:31 AM Will Pearson <william@cnsp.net> wrote:
Aaron,
In my experience, nouveau is adaquate, but to really use your Nvidia
hardware, you're gonna want to get the native Nvidia drivers going. You
won't be disappointed in the performance improvements.
Will
On 10/2/20 2:04 PM, Aaron Birenboim wrote:
I got LUbuntu installed on an iMac circa 2013. Is it worth trying to
get the NVIDIA driver running, or is modern neuveau adequate.
The main 3D I might do on there is a little light CAD. Mostly OpenScad.
aaron
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I think it's probably okay to share this, he emailed me directly: It's a GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition that was actually already using the Nvidia 390.138 proprietary drivers. Not the newest, but should be good enough to give the mobile GPU it's full potential. I was expecting something a bit older too from Nvidia, I thought Apple ditched Nvidia a while ago. But maybe that was more recent that I thought. ~ Jared On Oct 3 2020 11:14 AM, Wesley Robbins wrote:
I think the 2013 uses a 9400 nvidia which the standard drivers for nvidia will work. But if the Mac mini is a 320 nvidia that needs the legacy nvidia drivers. Not sure those work on the 20.04 Ubuntu variances. Might not be worth it for the old drivers.
On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 10:31 AM Will Pearson <william@cnsp.net> wrote:
Aaron,
In my experience, nouveau is adaquate, but to really use your Nvidia
hardware, you're gonna want to get the native Nvidia drivers going. You
won't be disappointed in the performance improvements.
Will
On 10/2/20 2:04 PM, Aaron Birenboim wrote:
I got LUbuntu installed on an iMac circa 2013. Is it worth trying to
get the NVIDIA driver running, or is modern neuveau adequate.
The main 3D I might do on there is a little light CAD. Mostly OpenScad.
aaron
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On Sat, 03 Oct 2020 12:54:44 -0600 ABQLUG <community@abqlug.com> wrote: ...
I was expecting something a bit older too from Nvidia, I thought Apple ditched Nvidia a while ago. But maybe that was more recent that I thought.
~ Jared
My recommendation for dealing with NVIDA is to ditch it and get something that supports Free Software. I have had exactly ZERO problems with NVIDIA drivers since I avoid NVIDIA like the plague. Follow Linus Torvalds lead. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/06/linus-torvalds-says-f... Mars -- ============================================================= J. Marsden DeLapp, PE President DeLapp & Associates, Inc. dba DeLapp Engineering. Providing lighting and power planning, design and analysis services for commercial, industrial and large residential facilities. 1190 Harrison Road Ste 3a Santa Fe NM 87507 (505) 983-5557 https://DeLapp.com =============================================================
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