gpu 3d cards which works with libre kernel

Hardware
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Actually as I know very few cards can works with libre kernel and 3d. Some users report Gtx 780 works (but they don’t report if 3d is enabled or not)

Nvidia gt710: This card DON’T work with libre kernel, require proprietary firmware for 3d, with 3d disabled works (but without 3d is useless imho)

Anyone has direct experience of a decent card which works (with 3d of course) and no proprietary stuff? Google AI report old nvidia card works, but without a direct experience is impossible to say if is true or not.

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If someone interested I run a list of hw which works with gnu-libre, atm NO card is working (working mean with 3d enabled, a gpu card with 3d disabled is like a sport car with speed limiter).

GPU

[AMD/ATI] Caicos [Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 / R5 230 OEM] (don’t work with gnu-libre, require a proprietary blob, the driver radeon is opensource, the firmware not, X11 don’t start)

Nvidia GP108 (138000a1) (don’t work with gnu-libre, require a proprietary blob, the driver nouveau is opensource, the firmware for this card not, X11 start but no 3d, and a lot of error messages in the log)

NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] 10de:128b (dont’t work with gnu-libre, require a proprietary firmware if you start with 3d enabled, works only with 3d disabled (nouveau.noaccel=1) otherwise return those errors

[mer mar 4 03:05:10 2026] 0000:01:00.0: Missing Free firmware (non-Free firmware loading is disabled)
[mer mar 4 03:05:10 2026] 0000:01:00.0: Missing Free firmware (non-Free firmware loading is disabled)
[mer mar 4 03:05:10 2026] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[mer mar 4 03:05:10 2026] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19

to works with a standard kernel require this proprietary blob “nv106_fuc084”

NVIDIA GT218 (0a8280b1) [GeForce GT 710] 10de:0a65 dont’t work with gnu-libre, start with no errors, Xorg go to 100% of cpu use, after do telinit 3 and telinit 4 to return graphical mode, those messages appear

[gio mar 5 01:49:15 2026] 0000:01:00.0: Missing Free firmware (non-Free firmware loading is disabled)
[gio mar 5 01:49:15 2026] 0000:01:00.0: Missing Free firmware (non-Free firmware loading is disabled)
[gio mar 5 01:49:15 2026] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: unable to load firmware data
[gio mar 5 01:49:15 2026] nouveau 0000:01:00.0: msvld: init failed, -19

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I can confirm that it works under Trisquel with 3D accelaration without issues. There are also other users in the Trisquel forums that confirm that. Mine is actually a GTX 780 Ti.

Could you please report them at h-node.org?

This card is known to work, so there must be something wrong with your configuration, hardware combination, or the exact card specimen.

This card is known to work too. But it seems to be GeForce 210 per the vendor code.

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