Hi,
There was a notice on arch-announce and on archlinux.org/news (
https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/
)
that confuses me. "With the update to driver version 590, the NVIDIA
driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older" etc. I don't
really know if that applies to me, given the brand/model labels and all.
(some detail about my hardware is offered at the end of this message.)
And even if it does, the notice is (to my dull mind) unclear. It says:
Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or
older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a
broken graphical environment.
That would be bad and makes me hesitent to experiment.
Part of what confuses me is this:
Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switch to the legacy
proprietary branch to maintain support
I'm using the proprietary nvidia driver already, so what does that statement
mean to me? (I'm not running nouveau or other)
So I have questions
- the one above ("does this mean me?")
- the one about already using the proprietary driver
- can I simply not upgrade the nvidia driver, keep using the installed one?
- If the system breaks, what is my recourse?
- Is "Install nvidia-580xx-dkms from the AUR" (as it says) appropriate
for me?
I know this sounds like a lot of foggy nonunderstanding, and I guess that's
because that's what it is. The relevant system has a very old NVIDIA
card. I haven't seen any reactions to this, maybe I'm the only one left ;)
Possibly relevant stuff from hwinfo:
22: PCI 100.0: 0300 VGA compatible controller (VGA)
[Created at pci.395]
Unique ID: VCu0.4tATP2A+FnB
Parent ID: 8otl.w6ofvOouCK2
SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:01:00.0
SysFS BusID: 0000:01:00.0
Hardware Class: graphics card
Model: "nVidia GM206 [GeForce GTX 960]"
Vendor: pci 0x10de "nVidia Corporation"
Device: pci 0x1401 "GM206 [GeForce GTX 960]"
SubVendor: pci 0x1462 "Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI]"
SubDevice: pci 0x3201
Revision: 0xa1
Driver: "nvidia"
Driver Modules: "nvidia"
Memory Range: 0xfd000000-0xfdffffff (rw,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xd0000000-0xdfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
Memory Range: 0xce000000-0xcfffffff (ro,non-prefetchable)
I/O Ports: 0xcc00-0xcc7f (rw)
Memory Range: 0x000c0000-0x000dffff (rw,non-prefetchable,disabled)
IRQ: 27 (1392224 events)
Module Alias: "pci:v000010DEd00001401sv00001462sd00003201bc03sc00i00"
Driver Info #0:
Driver Status: nouveau is not active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nouveau"
Driver Info #1:
Driver Status: nvidia_drm is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia_drm"
Driver Info #2:
Driver Status: nvidia is active
Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe nvidia"
Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
Attached to: #20 (PCI bridge)
Thanks for any attention.
-mm- (long time no write)
