| 5 May 2024 |
ElvishJerricco | In reply to @glaringweakness:nope.chat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlfm3MEbqYA dammit, they got the amdgpu thing wrong | 06:38:31 |
srhb | At this point we should probably put it in the option description. | 06:42:19 |
srhb | Everyone gets it wrong. | 06:42:24 |
K900 | Which thing? | 06:42:24 |
srhb | "amdgpu" vs "modesetting" | 06:42:33 |
ElvishJerricco | videoDrivers = ["amdgpu"]; | 06:42:35 |
srhb | (or just... no setting the thing" | 06:42:37 |
ElvishJerricco | it's mostly because the wiki is wrong | 06:42:53 |
ElvishJerricco | * it's mostly because the old wiki is wrong | 06:43:09 |
ElvishJerricco | and I just have this deep disdain for putting any effort into correcting that thing | 06:43:29 |
eyJhb | In reply to @elvishjerricco:matrix.org it's mostly because the wiki is wrong Would make sense to change both. I see a lot of copy pasta from the wiki in general | 06:43:41 |
ElvishJerricco | feel free | 06:43:51 |
ElvishJerricco | I'm not going to do it | 06:43:54 |
ElvishJerricco | it would take me a fulltime month to fix all the things I think are wrong in the old wiki | 06:44:45 |
K900 | That sounds optimistic tbh | 06:45:32 |
ElvishJerricco | I said all the things I think are wrong :P | 06:45:45 |
ElvishJerricco | not the things I don't even know are wrong | 06:45:53 |
eyJhb | Is the new wiki up-to-date RE modesetting and amdgpu? | 06:47:39 |
ElvishJerricco | does it even have an amdgpu page? | 06:47:51 |
ElvishJerricco | well it's got the modesetting bit right | 06:48:22 |
ElvishJerricco | except it doesn't seem to know that's the default | 06:48:30 |
ElvishJerricco | but it copy pasted most of the rest of the stuff and I don't know how correct that stuff was | 06:48:57 |
ElvishJerricco | like it's still got the bit about using amdvlk and letting the program choose whether to use that or radv | 06:49:49 |
ElvishJerricco | and like, that sounds wrong to me? I'm pretty sure you should just use radv. But I dunno | 06:50:01 |
K900 | You definitely should use radv unless you know exactly why you need amdvlk | 06:50:31 |
ElvishJerricco | link for reference: https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/AMD_GPU | 06:50:47 |
ElvishJerricco | We should add something at the top saying "unless you know for a fact you need any of this, the defaults are expected to be fine" | 06:51:45 |
ElvishJerricco | In fact there's at least two lines in there that should be totally redundant. You shouldn't need to tell the kernel to load the module, and you shouldn't need to set it to modesettting since that's the default | 06:52:26 |
ElvishJerricco | * In fact there's at least two lines in there that should be totally redundant. You shouldn't need to tell the kernel to load the module, and you shouldn't need to set videoDrivers to modesettting since that's the default | 06:52:50 |
ElvishJerricco | wait why the fuck does the nixos wiki github app to sign in via github want permission to "act on my behalf"? | 06:54:02 |