[mythtv-users] [OT] Ugrading Mythbuntu 12.04 -> 14.04 "broke" my server hardware.

[Hika van den Hoven]

Hoi Gary,

Thursday, October 9, 2014, 1:32:36 AM, you wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Alistair Grant <akgrant0710 at gmail.com> wrote:
> ....
>> My old system was running a GeForce 6600, and given the number of
>> issues that have recently been reported relating to older Nvidia
>> cards, I suspect it is more of a driver issue than hardware breaking.

> Yeah, sounds likely.

> The 6xxx cards were only supported in one of nvidias
> previous legacy splits (304 and below, I think).  And
> I would not be surprised if the default in many distros
> upgraded to the "later and better" drivers.  In most
> cases you could downgrade the driver, but that only
> works if you know about your options.

> In some ideal world there would be an "upgrade
> adviser" that warned one about hardware that was
> no longer supported with the latest versions of
> software so that people would not have to actually
> try to decipher the release notes.
Use Gentoo! and you have that!

> The entire proprietary binary blob driver issue just
> causes such a mess in the Linux environment,
> and is not limited to graphics cards (for this lists,
> participants, some tuners have exactly the same
> challenges).
> _______________________________________________


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