The problem is that this way or formulating the question doesn’t tell much to non tech users like me. I use cheap and old nvidia card GT218[Geforce210] by ASUSTeK with 3.3.0 nvidia 340.108 and it works perfectly on 5.4 and 5.7 kernels. But when I updated kernel to 5.8 I can’t see Manjaro logo at start-up. I see just black screen. The same with 5.9 rc. I am afraid that I will not be able to use this card anymore but throwing out what worked so far because of drivers seems not very reasonable to me and not environment friendly. And above all I don’t feel like I what I do require more advanced / faster card.
I would prefer to not use nouveau because I had problems with them in the past. Please do whatever possible to let users of old nvidia cards / drivers to be able to use it as long as possible, so that each user is not forced to change hardware, but will do it at his/her convenience.
Reference:
Can’t login to 5.8.6-1, no problem with 5.7.19 -2
Edition:
The good news is that kernel 5.4 will will now be supported until December 2025
Edition2:
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
Please clarify: if you keep that driver in repos will I be able to use it with kernel 5.4 until the end of support for 5.4? Or as soon as it happens I will need to switch to nouveau or buy a new card?