We had a good run with Nvidia 340xx driver series. However, at some point also we have to drop that driver. With Manjaro 19.0 release we will remove that driver from mhwd-db. This means the driver won’t be recommended or detected by our distro by default. 340.108 was the last release by Nvidia to support X 1.20 and Kernel 5.4. As soon as there is an update to X that driver is gone.
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I don’t see any reason to remove old drivers from repo. Why? To make sure people don’t use Manjaro on old hardware?
Nvidia simply don’t support and develops that driver anymore. So only Distro maintainers who patch it keep it alive. With 5.9 kernel series there is no patch-set anymore. So 5.8 kernel series was the last series we can support it.
Hi Phil, let’s drop 440xx in favor of 450xx, too! 
@openminded yeah, @philm please give us the Nvidia 450 driver in mhwd 
It takes time to add that. Part is done. We can push the packages first and then work on the mhwd integration.
That would be awesome, I think everyone will appreciate it
Does this mean that with the release of kernel 5.9 this driver will disappear or can it be used by those who use the old kernel?
This is not a Manjaro’s issue. It is a NVIDIA issue. NVIDIA decided to discontinued old hardware in their new drivers. I’m suffering this on Centos, as I have an old GPU card and I recently upgraded to CENTOS 8 because EOL. However I do not blame to SO providers the decisions of vendors. Blame Nvidia if you most.
Hello, first of all thatk you for your job and for mantaining old drivers as long as you can.
I have a old nvidia card and I use nvidia 340.
So, will kernel 5.8 serie be the last with nvidia-340xx support?
In this moment I don’t see nvidia–340xx driver also for linux58, isn’t it?
Have I to plan for using nouveau? This way I have to return using ext4 with linux419, because latest kernels with nouveau don’t support suspension on my notebook.
Even nvidia-304 still works just fine with a bit of patching… So unless you have a card older than 15 years, you should be just good.
Not that I think that would do much in redeeming nouveau, but you should report that bug I guess.
Nvidia 350 has the same hardware support than 340? If no, i would maintain this…
new version xorg is coming
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Server-1.20.9-Released
Anyone notice performance issue with 350.xx over 340.xx ? Especially with games running via wine ? 
Thanks
It’s already available in unstable and testing ( Manjaro - Branch Compare ) although not (yet?) in today’s stable-staging:
[Stable Staging Update] 2020-08-26 - Kernels, PAM, PAMBASE, KDE-git, Deepin, Pamac, Nvidia 450.66, LibreOffice 7.0
I am running testing:
$ pacman -Qi xorg-server
Name : xorg-server
Version : 1.20.9-1
Description : Xorg X server
Architecture : x86_64
URL : https://xorg.freedesktop.org
Licenses : custom
Groups : xorg
Provides : X-ABI-VIDEODRV_VERSION=24.0 X-ABI-XINPUT_VERSION=24.1 X-ABI-EXTENSION_VERSION=10.0 x-server
Depends On : libepoxy libxfont2 pixman xorg-server-common libunwind dbus libgl xf86-input-libinput nettle
libpciaccess libdrm libxshmfence
Optional Deps : None
Required By : nvidia-340xx-utils sddm
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : nvidia-utils<=331.20 glamor-egl xf86-video-modesetting
Replaces : glamor-egl xf86-video-modesetting
Installed Size : 3.64 MiB
Packager : Philip Mueller <philm@manjaro.org>
Build Date : Tue 25 Aug 2020 11:54:01 AM EDT
Install Date : Wed 26 Aug 2020 07:14:01 AM EDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
And Manjaro Settings Manager > Hardware Config says I have video-nvidia-340xx and pacman says I have installed it with Linux 5.4
$ pacman -Qi linux54-nvidia-340xx
Name : linux54-nvidia-340xx
Version : 340.108-60
Description : NVIDIA drivers for linux.
Architecture : x86_64
URL : http://www.nvidia.com/
Licenses : custom
Groups : linux54-extramodules
Provides : linux54-nvidia-340xx
Depends On : linux54 nvidia-340xx-utils=340.108
Optional Deps : None
Required By : None
Optional For : None
Conflicts With : linux54-nvidia-390xx linux54-nvidia-418xx linux54-nvidia-430xx linux54-nvidia-435xx
linux54-nvidia-440xx linux54-nvidia-450xx
Replaces : linux54-nvidia
Installed Size : 4.71 MiB
Packager : Helmut Stult <helmut@manjaro.org>
Build Date : Sat 22 Aug 2020 11:40:18 AM EDT
Install Date : Sun 23 Aug 2020 03:21:42 PM EDT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By : Signature
And so far, so good.
That’s a minor release, so it means nothing. ABI_VIDEODRV_VERSION is still the same.
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really? that would be great, because I can use an actual kernel like linux5.8 and don´t have to stay with linux5.4 …
regards
caho
I would maintain not myself but the answer to the question above