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video card NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] [1244]
model: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] [1244](model id: 656)
possible other names of the device:
nVidia GeForce GTX 550 Ti Graphics Accelerator
GTX550Ti
GTX550 Ti
GTX 550 Ti
vendor:
NVIDIA Corporation
VendorID:ProductID code of the device:
10de:1244
year of commercialization:
2012
interface:
PCI-E
tested on:
gNewSense 3.0 Parkes
Trisquel 5.5 Brigantia
Trisquel 6.0 Toutatis
tested with the following kernel libre:
2.6.32-5gnewsense1
3.2.0-38
3.10.7-gnu
how does it work with free software?
works with 3D acceleration
free driver used:
nouveau
Description:
Test result:

Test conducted in August 2013. Trisquel 6.0 liveCD could not login to its desktop environment, automatically logout back to login screen. After netinstall it shows only a black screen at startup. It seems the system failed to switch to VESA driver automatically. Must use another display card (Intel/AMD) to boot the system and upgrade to a newer kernel (3.10.7-gnu) and nouveau driver 1.0.9 in order to make it work. gNewSense 3.0 LiveDVD worked but it was using VESA driver. Compiz and OPENGL did not work with mesa 9.2-devel and 9.3-devel.

Worked with the newer linux-libre kernels from the following PPAs:

  • https://launchpad.net/~linux-libre/+archive/ppa/ (3.8.x-gnu)
  • http://jxself.org/linux-libre/ (3.10.x-gnu)
Hardware information:

lspci -vmmnn

Slot:	05:00.0
Class:	VGA compatible controller [0300]
Vendor:	NVIDIA Corporation [10de]
Device:	GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] [1244]
SVendor:	ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. [19da]
SDevice:	Device [5194]
PhySlot:	1
Rev:	a1

lspci -nnk

05:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF116 [GeForce GTX 550 Ti] [10de:1244] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device [19da:5194]
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau
	Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidiafb

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