On Wed, Jan 11, 2023 at 08:54:19AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Daemon Bernstein writes:
> > Also, there are NO Nvidia drivers for my old video card on those newer
> > distributions, and older drivers will not install.
>
> Just as a side note, we're not very happy about this situation either, but
> because the drivers are non-free and NVIDIA doesn't keep supporting them,
> there's not a lot we can do about it. They constantly drop support for
> newer cards and don't port older drivers to newer kernels or X servers,
Unless you want to run newest games or mine coins, nouveau tends to work
better -- or at least used to (before I dumped any nvidia hardware).
It won't have fancy video encoding acceleration and the like, but there's
no premature droppage.
The upstream kernel has no trouble supporting stuff like Amiga or Hercules
graphics card from 1984, both ATI/AMD and Intel cards continue to work,
it's only Nvidia who's user-hostile.
> I now avoid buying any products from NVIDIA if I can possibly avoid it
+1
> That of course doesn't help if you already own them, sadly.
As you haven't mentioned that you tried nouveau, I'd give it a try.
Meow!
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