Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
by fwip on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:06AM
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The market for gpus in Linux laptops is vanishingly small compared to the market in Linux server.
Most of the people driving server gpu purchases are used to sucking it up and doing their work over ssh, instead of locally.
Re:Nvidia Unveils GeForce RTX 30 Series GPUs
by simcop2387 on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @09:12PM
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This is largely the fault of nvidia's optimus setup. They're starting to support it finally but it's still iffy
- Ubuntu 18 I had hit or miss with the hdmi connection on my laptop (1060Q). 20% of the time it would work if I plugged it in. 50% of the time it would work if I had it plugged in and rebooted. This makes giving presentations difficult.
- Arch/Manjaro/Fedora/Ubuntu 16 I could never get the hdmi connection working for a laptop.
- All distros, difficulty getting cuda running AND using the display. Intel drivers for display + nvidia for cuda works, but this means I can't use my GPU when I want to do some of the limited linux gaming.
Laptops seem to have more problems than desktops. On desktops I have many more hits than misses (if I have the graphics card installed when I install the OS). Laptops have just been terrible.