[nmglug] NVIDIA driver on iMac

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I think it's probably okay to share this, he emailed me directly:

It's a GeForce GT 755M Mac Edition that was actually already using the 
Nvidia 390.138 proprietary drivers.

Not the newest, but should be good enough to give the mobile GPU it's 
full potential.

I was expecting something a bit older too from Nvidia, I thought Apple 
ditched Nvidia a while ago. But maybe that was more recent that I 
thought.

~ Jared



On Oct 3 2020 11:14 AM, Wesley Robbins wrote:
> I think the 2013 uses a 9400 nvidia which the standard drivers for
> nvidia will work.   But if the Mac mini is a 320 nvidia that needs 
> the
> legacy nvidia drivers.   Not sure those work on the 20.04 Ubuntu
> variances.   Might not be worth it for the old drivers. 
>
> On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 10:31 AM Will Pearson <william at cnsp.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> Aaron,
>>
>> In my experience, nouveau is adaquate, but to really use your Nvidia
>>
>> hardware, you're gonna want to get the native Nvidia drivers going. 
>> You
>>
>> won't be disappointed in the performance improvements.
>>
>> Will
>>
>> On 10/2/20 2:04 PM, Aaron Birenboim wrote:
>>
>>> I got LUbuntu installed on an iMac circa 2013.  Is it worth trying 
>>> to
>>
>>> get the NVIDIA driver running, or is modern neuveau adequate.
>>
>>>
>>
>>> The main 3D I might do on there is a little light CAD.  Mostly 
>>> OpenScad.
>>
>>>
>>
>>> aaron
>>
>>>
>>
>>>
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