using nvidia gpus in devuan

context

devuan releases table @
wikipedia / nvidia gpu list @
@ nvidia / unix drivers
debian wiki / NvidiaGraphicsDrivers@
nouveau/codenames @
Devuan forum / Nouveua vs Nvidia benchmarks on GM206 @
@ envytools / nvidia gpu docs

installation of nouveau driver

Installing devuan on a pc with a nvidia gpu will result in installation of nouveau driver. How that happens? What packages are involved ?

installation of priopriatory driver

gather related info

devuan version and it's corresponding debian version

That could be usefull for accessing and using related info available in the debian wiki. ref : devuan releases table @

identify installed gpu card

install non-free/x11 nvidia-detect and execute nvidia-detect

disable secure boot

According to the debian wiki :

If you have SecureBoot enabled: you need to enroll your machine owner's key (MOK) to use DKMS modules.

$ sudo mokutil --sb-state // check secure boot state

In Daedalus i didnt succeed in enrolling my machine keys so i disabled secure boot in the uefi bios. How that is done is not standard across uefi-bioses.

Add contib and non-free apt sources

Add "contrib", "non-free" components to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free
apt update

linux headers

Do we need linux headers ? What is linux headers? linux-headers-amd64

install non-free firmware

 firmware-nvidia

install nvidia-driver

issues

persistance daemon

$ sudo apt-cache show nvidia-driver Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 535), libnvidia-cfg1 (= 535.216.01-1~deb12u1), nvidia-persistenced (>= 535) During installation in Daedalus

utilities

nvdia-settings

nvidia-detect

nvidia-smi

nvidia-detect recommends a driver version.

nvidia-smi

 nvidia-smi (also NVSMI) provides monitoring and management capabilities for each of
 NVIDIA's Tesla, Quadro, GRID and GeForce devices from Fermi and higher architecture families

$ nvidia-smi -q -d TEMPERATURE

benchmarks

programs

in devuan

glmark2

third parties

Unigine Benchmarks

benchmarking GM206

 Unigine Valley Benchmark 1.0

-	nouveau	nvidia
FPS	10.8	99.8
Score	452	4176
Min FPS	7.5	43.3
Max FPS	7.5	167.8

glmark2 Score: 842 glmark2 Score: 17719