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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 3 days ago
#121
@ntromans

We are planning to do a short promo video on the NVidia driver work in coming days. I don't know if there is a writeup on 64-bit AROS history - note that this would be have to span probabaly 15 years of AROS development - first 64-bit bit work was already happening a long time ago.
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sonountalebanJunior Member
Posted 3 days ago
#122

deadwood wrote:

@deadwood - @sonountaleban

The top supported cards are Maxwell family: GTX 9xx (need NVidia firmware) and support starts with Test (GF 8**** and GF 9****). GTX 5xx and GTX 6xx cards are also good for AROS.


Ok, thanks. I'm going to buy one of those cheap gfx card soon for my AROS machine I've built recently - the internal Intel HD2500 is fine but not exceptional even for AROS. By the way I have a Gtx 1650 Super on my main PC, too, although I wasn't never able to launch AROS natively there, maybe it doesn't like the chipset of my motherboard (an ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0)...
Edited by sonountaleban on 23-07-2026 12:12, 3 days ago
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Amiwell79Distro Maintainer
Posted 2 days ago
#123
If anyone's interested, I'm giving away a Nvidia 580 Phantom 3.5 GbLike
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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 2 days ago
#124
Supported cards: from GF8/GF9 series (Tesla) up to GTX 9xx series (Maxwell)

There are two ways you can get the driver:

a) if you want to install it on your existing installation (must be 20250418-U3/AROS One 1.3) you can use these files: https://axrt.org/development/NVidia-49.7.zip

b) you can get a full base system ISO with the new driver here: https://axrt.org/development/aros-202609-D01-pc-x86_64-iso.zip ISO doesn't contain NVidia firmware files (needed for GTX 9xx). You need to get them from NVidia-49.7.zip
Edited by deadwood on 24-07-2026 11:29, 2 days ago
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sonountalebanJunior Member
Posted 18 hours ago
#125

deadwood wrote:

@deadwood - Supported cards: from GF8/GF9 series (Tesla) up to GTX 9xx series (Maxwell)

There are two ways you can get the driver:

a) if you want to install it on your existing installation (must be 20250418-U3/AROS One 1.3) you can use these files: https://axrt.org/development/NVidia-49.7.zip

b) you can get a full base system ISO with the new driver here: https://axrt.org/development/aros-202609-D01-pc-x86_64-iso.zip ISO doesn't contain NVidia firmware files (needed for GTX 9xx). You need to get them from NVidia-49.7.zip


Thank you. I meant above if you want to make a driver for the next Geforce gen (well, it's actually 2 gen ahead from Maxwell) I can put my GTX 1650 into my AROS machine for testing - by the way it's an i5-3570s plus ASUS P8Z68-M Pro plus 16 GB of RAM and all work well.
Out of curiosity: are there plans for Intel HD support? How do you implemented these gfx drivers? I don't believe you do some retro engineering, maybe usually you look at their open-source counterparts in Linux, isn't it? What could it be a starting point (particular source code, documentation, etc.)?
Edited by sonountaleban on 25-07-2026 07:08, 18 hours ago
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deadwoodAROS Dev
Posted 12 hours ago
#126
Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. On the motherboard - glad it works - it's a sister-board to one of the recommended ones, so it will be helpful with testing the upcoming release.

On the driver itself: it's not written from scratch, that would be way too compilated. It's a port of nouveau open source driver. Along with the driver itself I ported pieces of supporting architecture so now porting the IntelHD open source driver should be easier. There is a person who showed some initial interested in porting the IntelHD driver but we have to wait and see if that comes to fruition.
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