Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed

[carlosgonz]

ok looks like the poor performance on my Nvidia card was due to unreclock, i reclocked to max, and now the performance is amazing overall, now STK is show 50 fps from 15 fps from same  grafic configs. Even i am able to get close 100fps on same line card but more cores, even more it could work better if switch to zink.


EDIT:

blackbird:~$ sudo dmesg | grep  FAULT
[   14.728196] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: bus: MMIO read of 00000000 FAULT at 3e6684 [ PRIVRING ]

[bernie]

Thanks for the tip, I didn't know about reclocking! Since my original post I'd found and installed a used 780 Ti, which performed better than the 710, but still couldn't handle SuperTuxKart with the highest graphics settings. After reclocking, I can get 30fps with graphics settings set to their highest. or about 110fps with the lowest graphics settings. Good to know!

[carlosgonz]

Nice that you got reclocked.

Bernie  i testing some GPUs and Drivers to get better perfomance on Raptor Backbird and Gnu Systems, so  my raptor-blackbird it is original raptor SFF-mTX so i like this factor,however i not have much space for big GPUs, so it only fits gpu low profil, single slot, so i have gpus to testing compat to Gnu OS like intel arc pro a40, which at the moment it is not working  as it need some patches on libdrm, but this arc gpu may work OK without firmware but i untested yet. So what i using now is Quadro k1200 which it is Maxwell, maxwell it is newer than Kepler and still do not using signed firmware on host. k1200 it working nice and it compat to NVK 1.4, however Kepler  is only compat to NVK 1.2. Why so import NVK? On Gnu system we do not have a Libre driver for video hardware decoder on Nvidia GPUs, howerver we can use the Libre NVK not just for gaming but for video decoder and encoder for smooth and hight  performance for video play and any vk-software acceleration ready, so this why Maxwell 1.0 shine.

So Bernie GPUs like  780 Ti and 710 is still Kepler, however there are  i high performance Maxwell gpu that do not need firmware y compat to nvk 1.4 as mine it is: Nvidia GTX 750 Ti or Nvidia GTX 750, this GPUs it is the best of the best for newer features and performances for Gnu OS.

[bernie]

Interesting, I will have a look out for a 750 Ti to compare... On raw processing power, the 780 Ti seems like it should be better, I did not realise that the NVK version would make such a difference.

[carlosgonz]

You know what Bernie, there are some specific model of Pascal  Nvidia GPU that work without firmware signed and reclock. Pascal is newer that Maxwell.

Let me testing first then i let you know how  WONDERFUL work on Gnu system.

Additionally videolan-dav1d added more acceleration for av1 for powerpc. So this is nice because you can use the powerpc-vsx3.0 acceleration for video hard decode than nvidia-vpu to watch fast and smooth youtvbe or any video on powerpc, as NVK still missing ATM for kepler, maxwell, this news is nice for powerpc video performance. 

https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d/-/tags