On Tue, 26 May 2020 at 14:06, Jon LaBadie <jonfu@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Tue, May 26, 2020 at 04:20:06PM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 2020-05-26 13:43, hw wrote:
> > Ok, I take it that this mailing list is no more than a bad joke and only
> > useful for trolls. Everything that has been said so far is entirely
> > irrelevant and nothing new.
>
> If you were to go to https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ you'd seen the versions of
> nVidia drivers. You can follow those links to learn what hardware is supported by what version.
>
> As you know, Fedora Project doesn't distribute or support those drivers.
>
> At the moment the fine folks at rpmFusion supply
>
> 440 - Current hardware
> 390 - Older Hardware
> 340 - Older, Older Hardware
Terminology is fun. I'm considering update to F32 but was
concerned about my now pretty old system and its nVidia graphics.
Gee, my early 2013 system is still "current" according to nVidia.
Probably not for much longer, it is a 600 series card and the
oldest series on the list for the 440 drivers.
If you want Wayland you should have a look at the requirements section of the Arch Linux Wiki Wayland. Note that Nvidia is alone in using EGLStreams. When Nvidia says their drivers support an older card you need to read the fine print to see what "support" really means. Older drivers aren't tested against current distros by vendors, so you depend on other users to sort out what works. Nvidia graphics has been a drain on linux developer and support resources: Torvalds gives Nvidia the finger in response to a developer's remarks that she had to write her own driver for an Nvidia card she had purchased 2 years previously.
Guess I'll upgrade after all.
Avoid Nvidia.
Jon
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