On 2024-09-10 15:17, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
On 2024-09-09 12:26, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
This happened to me. I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 and Fedora 40.
- my NVidia card is no longer supported by current proprietary drivers
- it is supported by "legacy" proprietary drivers [snip] No, I have an older card. a GT 350. For years I have been using the nvidia-legacy-390xx series of 'old' nvidia drivers. But after a recent upgrade I had no graphical support after boot. I had an nvidia kernel module, but glx couldn't find support for my video card. Later, I saw some evidence that support for my card was being dropped out the legacy support, so I am guessing that is what happened.
It is one of the reasons to be very hesitant to apply "updates" to a running system. You never know what is going to break or change in a negative way. I still need to downgrade Thunderbird, and report a loss of a function in the most recent version of LibreOffice.
If Nvidia has dropped support for the GT 350 I will be having a problem in the not too distant future. I'm using a GeForce GTX 1050 which is much older card. I use the proprietary nvidia 545.29.06 driver. Which version is dropping GT 350 and older?
You may be OK. I was using the debian package nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver version 390.157-8. The documentation at https://packages.debian.org/sid/nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver contains a list of drivers for which will not be supported going forward. My card is on that list, but GTX 1050 was not. -- Michael Galea