Donate NVS 510 and 310 cards

Donate NVS 510 and 310 cards

[Ed Avis]

Hi, I have some spare Nvidia NVS 310 cards (with two DP1.2 outputs) and at
least one NVS 510 (four DP1.2 outputs).  Would any Nouveau developer like to
accept some as a donation?

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Re: Donate NVS 510 and 310 cards

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 06-06-16 14:27, Ed Avis wrote:
> Hi, I have some spare Nvidia NVS 310 cards (with two DP1.2 outputs) and at
> least one NVS 510 (four DP1.2 outputs).  Would any Nouveau developer like to
> accept some as a donation?

If you're willing to ship to Europe I would certainly welcome
1 of each card. I've recently started doing display port
testing with nouveau, so your timing is excellent :)

Regards,

Hans
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Re: Donate NVS 510 and 310 cards

[Ed Avis]

I'm in Europe (at least until the 23rd...) so let me know your address.

My motivation is to get them working reliably under Fedora 23 x86 to drive
a Dell UP2414Q 4k monitor, where currently my father's PC is experiencing
regular freezes.  So if you would like the loan of a UP2414Q monitor to go
with the cards, let me know too.

(The UP2414Q is an interesting monitor to drive since it appears as two
1920x2160 screens over a single DP1.2 connection when driven at 60Hz.
It has often tickled bugs in video card drivers on both Windows and Linux;
and the monitor's own buggy firmware doesn't help.)

Anyone else interested in cards or monitor?

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Re: Donate NVS 510 and 310 cards

[Hans de Goede]

Hi,

On 07-06-16 12:13, Ed Avis wrote:
> I'm in Europe (at least until the 23rd...) so let me know your address.

Cool, I'll send you a private mail with my address.

> My motivation is to get them working reliably under Fedora 23 x86 to drive
> a Dell UP2414Q 4k monitor, where currently my father's PC is experiencing
> regular freezes.  So if you would like the loan of a UP2414Q monitor to go
> with the cards, let me know too.
>
> (The UP2414Q is an interesting monitor to drive since it appears as two
> 1920x2160 screens over a single DP1.2 connection when driven at 60Hz.
> It has often tickled bugs in video card drivers on both Windows and Linux;
> and the monitor's own buggy firmware doesn't help.)

Hmm, that monitor will require mst support:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DisplayPort#Multiple_displays_on_single_DisplayPort_connector

Which is currently not implemented in the nouveau driver. There
are plans to support this eventually, but that is still at least
half a year away. For now my advice would be to use either Intel
integrated graphics on a mobo with a dp connector, or maybe an
ati add-in card. Note I do not know what the status of mst support
on ati is, you should double check that before buying a card.

Or try your luck with the nvidia binary driver.

Regards,

Hans
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UP2414Q (was: Donate NVS 510 and 310 cards)

[Ed Avis]

Sorry I wasn't clear about the Dell UP2414Q monitor.  You are right that
driving it at 4k requires MST support and this isn't currently supported by
Nouveau.  So instead I am driving it at only 30Hz which should be a straight-
forward setup.  However, this still crashes regularly, for example when
opening a pull-down menu in Libreoffice and a moment later clicking to close
and reopen the same menu.  (The PC is not in front of me so it is hard for me
to investigate further at the moment.)

So if any developer(s) would like to borrow a UP2414Q monitor to accompany a
donation of the NVS 310 or 510 video cards, I will be happy to pay postage
both ways.  If you can reproduce and fix the bug, you can keep the monitor.

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