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Howdy, |
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I mentioned in another thread that I was going to upgrade to a much |
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newer kernel. I also have to make sure Nvidia supports that kernel. |
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So, I went to the Nvidia site and did a search by model number. This is |
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the output of lspci: |
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01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX |
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650] (rev a1) |
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So, I did the manual thing, since this is Linux not windoze, and |
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selected the series and model. According to the list it provided, I |
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should be using the drivers in the 440 slot. I'm currently using the |
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390 slot since when I installed that card, that is what it showed. I'm |
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almost 100% certain I checked this when installing this card. My |
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question is, is it normal for nvidia to change the series of drivers for |
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cards like this? Am I reading this wrong? Link to Nvidia site. |
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https://www.geforce.com/drivers |
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I couldn't provide a link to the selected part since it doesn't seem to |
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provide one, java stuff I guess. Next link I went too. |
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https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/results/159360/ |
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According to that the 440 series supports the 5.6 series of kernel. It |
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doesn't indicate a specific version tho. Does that mean I can go to the |
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very latest version or do I need to look elsewhere to see what is |
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supported? If it matters, I use gentoo-sources. Currently on 4.19.40 |
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and I'm showing gentoo-sources-5.6.7 as the latest available in the |
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tree. Since I don't upgrade kernels much, may as well take a large |
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leap. ;-) |
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Thanks much. A little confused. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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P. S. Got my garden about half disced. Dry side about ready to plant and |
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wet side is lightly disced to help it dry out. :-D |