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.
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Hi Phil, let’s drop 440xx in favor of 450xx, too! 
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It takes time to add that. Part is done. We can push the packages first and then work on the mhwd integration.
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That would be awesome, I think everyone will appreciate it 
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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.
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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.
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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…
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new version xorg is coming
https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=X.Org-Server-1.20.9-Released
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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.
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That’s a minor release, so it means nothing. ABI_VIDEODRV_VERSION is still the same.
see this
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
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Interesting. It’s a regression though (and it could even just affect newer drivers).
The last official kernel that nvidia supports is 5.4, but there are patches (which manjaro/AUR ships with) for up to 5.8.
5.9-rc1 was just released last week… So there’s still time for somebody to come up with a solution.
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Are you thinking of 450?
There doesn’t seem to be a driver version 350.
I’ve not heard of it before, so I googled ‘nvidia linux driver 350’ – nothing there.
Here you can see the list of products supported by the 450 driver:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/160555/en-us
My Quadro FX is not there, it still needs version 340.