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| The accelerated OpenGL driver is provided by `mesa-dri`. This is a dependency of | ||
| the `xorg` metapackage, but must be manually installed when using `xorg-minimal` | ||
| or Wayland. |
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| or a Wayland compositor. |
| ### Vulkan | ||
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| > **Warning**: The NVK driver is relatively new and may be unstable and/or | ||
| > underperformant. Expect instability on cards below Turing (GTX 16xx). |
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"Underperformant" is not a word. Additionally, this warning would be better served as part of the main paragraph.
| > underperformant. Expect instability on cards below Turing (GTX 16xx). | ||
| Cards starting with Kepler (GTX 6xx) are supported by the Vulkan nouveau driver. | ||
| Install `vulkan-loader` and `mesa-vulkan-nouveau`. |
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| Install `vulkan-loader` and `mesa-vulkan-nouveau`. | |
| Install `vulkan-loader` and `mesa-vulkan-nouveau`. Older cards may perform poorly or unreliably with Vulkan. |
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| At the time of writing, only first generation Maxwell, Kepler, and some Tesla |
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| At the time of writing, only first generation Maxwell, Kepler, and some Tesla | |
| Only first generation Maxwell, Kepler, and some Tesla |
There is no need for "at the time of writing" unless you are trying to claim psychic abilities and you assume that the reader will browse Git history to figure out when the document was written.
| At the time of writing, only first generation Maxwell, Kepler, and some Tesla | ||
| cards support manual reclocking. Cards past Turing (GTX 16xx) support automatic | ||
| reclocking. | ||
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This should all be one paragraph.
| ### Xorg | ||
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| The `xorg` metapackage pulls in the `xf86-video-nouveau` video driver. This will | ||
| need to be manually installed if using `xorg-minimal`. You can also use the |
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| need to be manually installed if using `xorg-minimal`. You can also use the | |
| need to be manually installed when `xorg-minimal` is installed instead. You can also use the |
| need to be manually installed if using `xorg-minimal`. You can also use the | ||
| universal `modesetting` driver bundled with Xorg (this is the only option on | ||
| Tegra-based ARM boards). | ||
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| The former can make use of card-specific 2D acceleration paths, which is | ||
| primarily useful on older cards with specialized fixed function hardware (the |
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| primarily useful on older cards with specialized fixed function hardware (the | |
| primarily useful on older cards with specialized, fixed-function hardware. (The |
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Mesa's NVK driver is getting better and more popular. Time to add instructions in the handbook for it. Went ahead and divided the nouveau section into subsections like the other driver pages.
Note that the section divisions are unnecessary for the proprietary driver because it unifies all of the APIs into one package.