| 5 May 2024 |
 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 |
| ElvishJerricco | sign in with github is a thing, isn't it? | 06:54:08 |
| ElvishJerricco | why is there a github app? | 06:54:12 |
| ElvishJerricco | I guess I will create a separate account :| | 06:54:49 |
| ElvishJerricco | Anyway... K900 Should I just like... remove those first two sections? Since they should be totally redundant? And then add a blurb at the top saying "For ordinary desktop / gaming usage, the defaults will work. The following sections should only be needed if you have a reason for them." | 06:58:52 |
| K900 | Probably | 06:59:01 |
| ElvishJerricco | Do I leave the line saying "This guide is about setting up NixOS to correctly use your AMD Graphics card if it is relatively new (aka, after the GCN architecture)."? I dunno if it's really relevant information at that point | 06:59:53 |
| ElvishJerricco | though I guess we probably do want to mention the whole hardware.opengl config that you should have | 07:02:51 |
| ElvishJerricco | K900: Does this seem ok to you? https://wiki.nixos.org/wiki/AMD_GPU
I killed the redundant things, added the bit about enabling gpu accel in the first place (not that that's amd specific), and moved all the special bits under a separate "Special Configurations" heading that explains you should only use them if you know you need them
| 07:17:41 |
 srhb | I'd have specifically kept the redundant thing and mentioned its redundancy. I need it for pointing out "you don't want amdgpu, you want nothing, because this." Which you also just needed in the youtube comment. :) | 07:24:01 |
