nVidia Nouveau Driver

Johpin · December 28, 2024 at 7:23 AM New

The Nvidia GeForce 6100 and 7300LE are supported well by the nouveau driver in the kernel under Linux is my experience. I am planning to build LibreELEC with a kernel including this nouveau driver.

**chewitt** · December 28, 2024 at 8:33 AM New

Johpin I'm not sure this is complete, but it might be helpful: https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/5917

Johpin · December 28, 2024 at 3:56 PM New

chewitt Thanks for the link, I expect it will be helpful

To add the nouveau driver you can add "nouveau" to the line in the file /home/john/LibreELEC.tv/config/graphic
GRAPHIC_DRIVERS="crocus i915 iris r300 r600 radeonsi nvidia nvidia-legacy nvidia-ng vmware virtio vc4"

As I can remember during installation of the proprietary Nvidia driver, a file will be written and you have to delete it if you want to revert to the nouveau driver. I choose to remove nvidia:

GRAPHIC_DRIVERS="crocus i915 iris r300 r600 radeonsi nouveau vmware virtio vc4"

In my case I want to optimize it to one system. I assume I can reduce it to:

GRAPHIC_DRIVERS="nouveau"

I don't know the effect, but I looked on forehand into the file /home/john/LibreELEC.tv/projects/Generic/linux/linux.x86_64.conf

and saw the nouveau driver has not been set. Should it be necessary to manually set the nouveau driver by "make menuconfig" also?

**chewitt** · December 29, 2024 at 9:33 AM New

Reducing the number of drivers being inluded reduces image size and build time, that's no problem. And yes, you'll need to enable the kernel driver in projects/Generic/linux/linux.x86_64.conf - the PR that I linked only adds the userspace Xorg bits.

**mglae** · December 29, 2024 at 9:57 AM New

The PR adds kernel nouveau driver via package.mk

Johpin · December 29, 2024 at 3:07 PM New

mglae Thanks for mentioning the use of package.mk.

I found more about changing of the code in files and adding files, see

add nouveau - opensource nvidia driver by ToKe79 · Pull Request #5917 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv

I am not sure if it is relevant for LibreELEC, but maybe for the Generic (non-legacy) image. I did not test the legacy image, as I don't have nvidia card,…

github.com

After I have bought 2x2GB RAM, I expect to be able to compile and build LibreELEC on a x86_64 system (for cross-compiling my RPi4 and probably my RPi5 have not sufficient memory).