Tomek
16 August 2021 19:38
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I doubt if there is any chance for it. Not so long ago there was much more choices, but maintaining was problematic so almost all Nvidia drivers were dropped. Read those topics to know situation.
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It becomes harder and harder to support the older and legacy Nvidia drivers for upcoming kernel series. Starting with 5.9 kernel series, only 450 and 455 are supported by this kernel. Older drivers simply don’t compile anymore. Out of the two, only 455 supports CUDA. If we look at Arch, they already dropped the legacy drivers completely.
We would go back to a rolling driver update, and only offer the latest Nvidia driver. This might bring back the known issues, that some graphic cards …
With the Stable-Update on the 2020-12-30 we decided to Remove outdated Nvidia Drivers . This resulted in a massive negative feedback and broken systems.
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Nvidia informed about their support timeframes a while ago. 390xx will be supported through the end of 2022. However they are slow in providing needed patches. The Linux community patched them so far. 340xx got dropped already. Officially they only support till Kernel 5.4 and Xorg-Server 1.20 series. In AUR you may find patches till 5.…
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