NVIDIA's Looking To Expand Its Linux Team

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA's Looking To Expand Its Linux Team

In early December I shared that NVIDIA was looking to expand its Linux driver team after Andy Ritger mentioned they were looking to take on new engineers. It appears they're still looking to expand with an updated job posting yesterday seeking a Linux graphics software engineer...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTA5MQ

[Qaridarium]

nvidia:"join the team of the open-source haters we pay 6$6$6$ dollars per Day you only need to sign a contract with the Devil and your soul goes to hell after you are death"

[TheBlackCat]

"Is there anything you would like to see in their driver short of a full open-source strategy?"

Uh, how about the xrandr 1.2 support they have been promising us for years now? Heck, any sort of working user-level GUI for configuring monitors would be nice. Their current tools do not even remember their settings between sessions, so they are essentially useless without editing your xorg.conf file, which requires root privileges and most Linux distros nowadays don't even use xorg.conf.

How about optimus support? Many, if not most, upcoming laptops ship with graphics cards that cannot be used under Linux because they rely on optimus, while Nvidia has said they have no plans to support optimus under Linux.

How about fixing their problems with pixmaps? Nvidia's proprietary driver is the only one that has problems with software creating a lot of pixmaps.

How about kernel mode setting? Or anything else needed to get wayland working. On the software side a lot of work is going into getting ready for it, but Nvidia seems to be totally ignoring it.

[renkin]

glxextxexlg: something something something

[ChrisXY]

Heck, any sort of working user-level GUI for configuring monitors would be nice. Their current tools do not even remember their settings between sessions, so they are essentially useless without editing your xorg.conf file, which requires root privileges and most Linux distros nowadays don't even use xorg.conf.

nvidia-settings -l in autostart?

[TheBlackCat]

nvidia-settings -l in autostart?

That doesn't restore your monitor settings. The monitor settings aren't even saved in your .nvidia-settings-rc file.

[grantek]

I wonder if any of the ATI guys that were let go in recent years are contractually able to apply?

[ChrisXY]

That doesn't restore your monitor settings. The monitor settings aren't even saved in your .nvidia-settings-rc file.

Oh ok. That sucks then. Is there a good reason for not also storing it there?

[deanjo]

" Heck, any sort of working user-level GUI for configuring monitors would be nice. Their current tools do not even remember their settings between sessions, so they are essentially useless without editing your xorg.conf file, which requires root privileges and most Linux distros nowadays don't even use xorg.conf.

Add

nvidia-settings –load-config-only &

to your ~/.xinitrc file, or in ~/.kderc (KDE) or in ~/.gnomerc, etc…

How about optimus support? Many, if not most, upcoming laptops ship with graphics cards that cannot be used under Linux because they rely on optimus, while Nvidia has said they have no plans to support optimus under Linux.

Licensing clash, doubt you will ever see it.

How about kernel mode setting?

See above.

Or anything else needed to get wayland working.

Doable but not a high priority until wayland starts proving itself that it will be the replacement for X.

On the software side a lot of work is going into getting ready for it, but Nvidia seems to be totally ignoring it.

Don't be so sure about that. Nvidia doesn't typically announce anything until they have a solution ready for the public. They "didn't have any plans" for accelerated video decode for example and then "Bam!" there was vdpau.

[efikkan]

Support for optimus and profiles for games would be great.

I seriously doubt nVidia is going to release an open source driver anytime soon. If they are going to release an open driver in the very distant future, the best way to do this would be to open source their stable branch of their drivers. In order to do this they would probably need to strip this driver from any support for future products, and then add it when the new products arrive.