Am 15.08.20 um 09:57 schrieb David C. Rankin: > ... > That is a shame. You just can't pull a videocard out of your i7 laptop to > update for fun, and you sure can't run desktop effects in KDE without it. I'm > not sure I understand the logic in Arch dropping the 390xx drivers relegating > a host of laptops Quadro cards to trying to build the nvidia-390xx, the utils > and settings package. Even following the list, I don't recall a discussion > about the discontinuation and there was no warning on update or error on > reinstall. >
It was mentioned on arch-dev-public: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2020-March/029895.html There were no maintainers that were able to test the legacy nvidia packages anymore, so they had to be dropped. Unofficial binary packages are available in the disastrousaur[1] and jlk[2] repositories. The AUR package is mostly repackaging the upstream binaries anyways, only the kernel module is built from source. So I don't think it would be too bad to install it from the AUR. [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#disastrousaur [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Unofficial_user_repositories#jlk -- ProgAndy
