Real life status of nouveau support for selected cards

Code name (PMC.BOOT)

Market name

Contact info

2D

3D

Suspend

Reclocking

Outputs

Software version (kernel/DDX/Mesa)

Remarks

NV05 (0x20154000)

MSI MS-8806 (desktop card)

Albert Pool

works, mouse cursor flickers somewhat

works, with very limited capabilities, occasional nouveau_vieux_dri.so segfault

works

works

VGA

2.6.38 / git Sept. '11 / 7.10.2

NV11 (0x011100b2)

GeForce2 MX200 (onbaord desktop video)

Salah Coronya

Framebuffer works. X severely distorted with acceleration. OK without

Untested

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

VGA

3.3.2 / 0.0.16 / 7.11

nouveau can do 1336 x 768; blob can't get past 1024 x 768.

NV18 (0x018500c1)

GeForce4 MX 4000 (desktop card)

Calvin Kruse < calvin.ckruse@gmail.com >

works, stable

works, Some instability ^{1 2 3}

UNKNOWN

N/A

VGA, S-VIDEO

UNKNOWN

It runs (unlike the blob - "no card found"). Thanks for the support

NV34 (0x034200b1)

XFX GeForce FX 5200 (desktop card)

Albert Pool

works, stable

works, some artifacts or crashes

suspend works, hibernate not always

UNKNOWN

VGA, TV-out untested, DVI ⁷

2.6.38 / git Sept. '11 / 7.10.2

Actually Compiz works better than using the blob.

NV36 (0x436200a1)

Asus GeForce FX 5700 AGP (desktop card)

Nick Bowler < nbowler@draconx.ca >

works OK, minor corruption, some apps very slow

works OK

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

VGA, TV-out untested, DVI

3.2.9 / git Mar. 2012 / 8.0.1

NV4E (0x04e000a2)

GeForce 6150 LE (onboard desktop video)

Salah Coronya

Works since 3.7-rc1 (Bug 46557)

Works since 3.7-rc1

Doesn't work, but neither does the blob

UNKNOWN

VGA

3.7-rc1 / 0.0.16_pre20120322 / 8.0.4

Detects phantom DVI and TV-out output. Bug 31961

NV43 (0x043000a4)

XFX GeForce 6600 GT AGP (desktop card)

Albert Pool

works, stable

works, stable

works

not working fine in 3.0 kernel but working in git Dec. '11

2xDVI, TV-out untested

git Nov. '11 / git Sept. '11 / 7.10.2

NV44 (0x044a00a2)

GeForce 7100 GS PCI-E (desktop card)

Matt Graham < danceswithcrows@gmail.com >

works, mouse flickers a bit

works

works

UNKNOWN

VGA untested, DVI, TV-out

3.3.2 / git 2012-04-15 / git 2012-04-15

Minor graphics corruption in 3D, but better than the blob. Corruption may be hardware-related; waiting on spare card to see.

NV50 (0x086900a2)

Quadro NVS 140M (Thinkpad T61)

Vladimir Laskov < samflanker@gmail.com >

works

UNKNOWN

works

UNKNOWN

VGA

2.6.32/1:0.0.15+git20100329+7858345-5/7.7.1

NV84 (0x084c00a2)

GeForce FX 570M (Thinkpad T61p)

Grant Diffey < gdiffey@gmail.com >

works, stable some font corruption

works, mostly stable

works

UNKNOWN

LVDS works fine 1920x1200 VGA untested

3.4-rc2-rt/0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1/7.11.2-1

gmail seems pathological for font corruption most everywhere else it's ok also has phantom DVI output ⁷

NV86 (0x086100a2)

GeForce 8500 GT (desktop card)

Sven Joachim < svenjoac@gmx.de >

works, stable

works, mostly stable

works

UNKNOWN

VGA

3.1-rc6/0.0.16/7.12

GPU lockups in 3D with kernels 2.6.39 and 3.0. Stable with 3.1

NV86 (0x086700a2)

GeForce 8400M GS 256MB (Acer Aspire 5720G)

Maxim Levitsky < maximlevitsky@gmail.com >

works, stable, small corruptions

works, very stable ⁴

works ⁵

Fine (needs mupuf's patches)

LVDS, VGA, DVI ⁵, TV-OUT wip

3.0.0/0.0.16 /7.12

Possible to reduce power usage by 5W (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37922). Nvidia ctxprog helped with unigine crashes and maybe more, confirmed by another user ⁴

NV86 (0x086700a2)

GeForce 8400M GS 256MB (HP Pavilion dv6730ed)

Albert Pool

works, stable

works, quite stable

works

UNKNOWN

LVDS, VGA, HDMI (untested), TV-out (not working)

2.6.38/0.0.16/7.10.2

See above ^
I haven't yet had lockups with 3.0 but haven't run that kernel much

NV86 (0x086f00a2)

Quadro NVS 290

Rick van der Zwet < info@rickvanderzwet.nl >

works mostly. Not usable for daily use, corruptions on refresh.

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

DMS-59 (2xDVI)

KERNEL: 3.0.0-15-generic DDX: 1:0.0.16+git20110411+8378443-1 MESA: 7.11-0ubuntu3

Used in a Dell Dimension C521 together with Ubuntu 11.10 amd64.

NV96 (0x096000c1)

GeForce 9500 GT (desktop card)

Diego Viola < diego.viola@gmail.com >

works, stable

works, very stable

works

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

NV96 (0x096980c1)

GeForce GT 120M (Asus K70IO)

Emil Velikov < emil.l.velikov@gmail.com >

works, stable, no corruption

works, stable, no corruption

works

UNKNOWN

LVDS, VGA untested, HDMI ⁶

UNKNOWN

Mainly desktop usage and movies + occasional gaming

NVC1 (0x0c1d00a1)

Quadro 1000m (ThinkPad W520)

Victor Unegbu < victoru@gmail.com >

works, stable

appears to work, seems stable

works, unable to adjust screen brightness once resumed

UNKNOWN

LVDS, DP, VGA ( untested)

3.1.0-g46797c2/0.0.16/7.11

Using modules from the nouveau 2.6 kernel.

NVC1 (?)

EVGA GeForce GT 430 (desktop card)

Albert Pool

works

not working with Linux 3.0 yet

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

VGA, DVI, HDMI

3.0/0.0.16/7.10.2

NVCE (?)

EVGA GeForce GTX 560 (desktop)

Michael Armijo

works

works, slow

UNKNOWN

works except for memory, unstable (crashes often)

DVI, HDMI

3.7.1-2.1-LIBRE/20121228-1 (git)/9.0.1

GPU is only stable at default boot speeds (50MHz core, 101 MHz shader, 135 MHz memory)

NV50 (0x096400a1)

GeForce 9600M GS Rev. A1 (on Samsung P35 Laptop)

Matthias Nagel

works, stable

UNKNOWN

works

unknown

LVDS (internal), VGA, HDMI (audio works, too)

3.6.11-gentoo/?/9.0.0

Hot-plugging of external monitors is detected during runtime and can be configured though xrandr, but the output is actually only enabled, if the external monitor has already been connected during boot

NVE6 (?)

EVGA GeForce GTX 660 (desktop)

Michael Armijo

works

works, unstable

UNKNOWN

UNKNOWN

DVI, HDMI, DP

3.8.0-RC5/20130125-1 (git)/9.0.2

So far good 2D and 3D performance. 3D is very unstable, but that's expected.