On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 12:52:47 -0600 "David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Things look very grim for the 110 Nvidia cards that use the > nvidia-390xx driver. Seems the binary pieces built and supplied by > nvidia and those that you build must be built using the same glibc. > The last update by Nvidia for the 390xx driver was at the end of > 2022. glibc 2.37 puts Arch ahead of the glibc used with the last > 390xx driver. So unless this is a regression in glibc or Nvidia > provides a "Goodness of it's Heart" update, those cards are dead on > Arch and most revert to the nouveau driver. (I'm not holding my > breath on either...) > > See: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=283327 > > This is all GTX 580 and below, Quadro 6000(and M) and below and > mobile GPUs from the GT 820M down. There are two good card references > for looking up affected cards listed in the wiki > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA > > https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/ > > https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html > > Frustrating when perfectly good hardware can no longer be used as > intended due to a trivial glibc change. The double-edged sword of a > rolling-release coupled with corporate greed to drive new hardware > sales. Not much of an issue when top video cards cost $200, but in > today's world with prices close to 8X that -- it's a much bigger > issue. > > Nouveau is fine, but frame-rates pale in comparison to the nvidia > driver. We will see where this goes... Can't you just install the required version of glibc [1] to build the drivers, or does that lead to other incompatibilities [1] As discussed e.g at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/847179/multiple-glibc-libraries-on-a-single-host
