NVIDIA

This page is about driver information for NVIDIA graphic cards. Currently Nouveau, the open-source driver for NVIDIA GPUs is supported as the proprietary NVIDIA driver is not available for Musl C library used in Alpine Linux.

Nouveau

Nouveau is an open-source driver for NVIDIA GPUs.

Wayland

Install the following packages as needed:

• mesa-dri-gallium: necessary Mesa drivers.
• mesa-va-gallium: VA-API drivers, for hardware accelerated video encoding and decoding

If driver auto-selection does not work, e.g. no mouse cursor under Sway, manual driver selection might be needed:

• export MESA_LOADER_DRIVER_OVERRIDE=nouveau

For VA-API:

• export LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nouveau

See also

• Kernel Modesetting