[mythtv-users] Nvidia drop support for more 'legacy' GPUs

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Tony,

Wednesday, November 26, 2014, 1:05:48 AM, you wrote:

> this doesn't sound great. What does it mean for in terms of what I
> can or can't do? My main machine has ubuntu 12.04 with latest
> mythbuntu fixes/0.27 and onboard GeForce 8200. I also have an old
> asus pundit ph2 running debian wheezy with a GeForce 6150 (I was
> hoping to try some simple changes to the latest source code on this machine).



> Am I prevented in upgrading my o/s? Or in trying out some features
> of mythtv? Thanks if anyone can explain -- it's not obvious to me
> why it's so bad. (Ironically I always bought NVidia hardware because I thought it was linux-friendly).






> On 3 October 2014 at 04:21, Gary Buhrmaster
> <gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 2:56 AM, Robin Gilks <g8ecj at gilks.org> wrote:
 >> Its a long list but includes
 >>
 >> GeForce 100/200/300/400
 >> GeForce 8 & 9 Series (includes my onboard 8300)
 >> Not sure if it includes the ION 9M and ION2 200 series
 >>
 >> All as from version 343 - 340 is the last 'usable' for me.
>  
>  The 343 driver supports the 400 series (but does
>  appear to drop the rest).  But otherwise, your point
>  is valid.  nVidia has had a habit of dropping support
>  of older cards from their "universal" drivers (I guess
>  the term "universal" is not what I think it means).
>  Their "universal" driver used to be a targeted
>  marketing poke in the ribs to their main
>  competitor (ATI) driver versioning (which left old
>  cards unsupported).  I guess nVidia learned that
>  lesson.
>  
>  One question (which only nVidia can not answer
>  (they do not talk about future features)) is whether
>  full wayland support will be backported to the 340
>  drivers.  If not, that may leave a lot of people with
>  some hard choices down the road.
>  
> _______________________________________________


It simply means they freeze the current driver for those older GPU's.
Any newer drivers with possible new features won't support those older
GPU's. On the nvidia site you can find which frozen driver (there are
a few) you need for older GPU's. They might however supply bugfixes.

For Ubuntu and other distributions it's no problem you just have to
install the proper older driver version. Only future improvements,
updates etc. won't be available.

See: http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html

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