Nvidia Support

[CS DBA]

Hi All;

My shiny new Thinkpad W540 is due to arrive tomorrow. I'm preparing what 
I think I might need for the Fedora 20 install.

Nvidia support question, the W540 is equipped with this card:
NVIDIA Quadro K1100M 2GB

Anyone have any thoughts on the best video packages that would support 
this card?
Is the nouveau driver sufficient, or would the kmod-nvidia driver be 
better?
Do I need to download and install the Nvidia binaries?

The screen on the laptop is a 1920x1080

Thanks in advance

[John Aldrich]

Quoting CS DBA <cs_dba(a)consistentstate.com&gt;:

>  Hi All;
>
>  My shiny new Thinkpad W540 is due to arrive tomorrow. I'm preparing
>  what I think I might need for the Fedora 20 install.
>
>  Nvidia support question, the W540 is equipped with this card:
>  NVIDIA Quadro K1100M 2GB
>
>  Anyone have any thoughts on the best video packages that would support
>  this card?
>  Is the nouveau driver sufficient, or would the kmod-nvidia driver be better?
>  Do I need to download and install the Nvidia binaries?
>
>  The screen on the laptop is a 1920x1080
>
>  Thanks in advance
>  
Use the drivers in RPM Fusion. Add the RPM Fusion NON-FREE repository  
to your system. See the following link for instructions:  
http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/nVidia

[Rick Stevens]

On 03/13/2014 10:39 AM, CS DBA issued this missive:
>  Hi All;
>
>  My shiny new Thinkpad W540 is due to arrive tomorrow. I'm preparing what
>  I think I might need for the Fedora 20 install.
>
>  Nvidia support question, the W540 is equipped with this card:
>  NVIDIA Quadro K1100M 2GB
>
>  Anyone have any thoughts on the best video packages that would support
>  this card?
>  Is the nouveau driver sufficient, or would the kmod-nvidia driver be
>  better?
>  Do I need to download and install the Nvidia binaries?
>
>  The screen on the laptop is a 1920x1080 
 From http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/:

"Performance level selection (also known as "reclocking") is not
supported yet. Expect low 3D performance on laptops using a Tesla GPU
and all Fermi/Kepler cards. (see CodeNames)"

And buried inside the "CodeNames" link:

NVE0 family (Kepler)
First family to support using 4 monitors simultaneously on one GPU, 
older generations had only 2 CRTCs.

Code name	Official Name
NVE7 (GK107)	GeForce GT (640[M], 645M, 650M, 710M, 720M, 730M, 740M,
		745M, 750M, 755M), GTX (650, 660M)
		Quadro 410, K500[M], K600, K1000[M], K1100M, K2000[M],
		                                     ^^^^^^
		NVS 510, 1000

So, yes, the card is supported by nouveau, but you'll have poor 3D
performance since the card is a "Kepler". I have a "Tesla" on THIS
machine so I use the kmod-nvidia stuff on it.
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