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

[Tony Gould]

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.
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