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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 9:11 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> |
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> They always worked great using the NVidia blob drivers, but |
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> using NVidia drivers was a constant source of minor pain. Often kernel |
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> updates had to be postponed until NVidia driver support caught up, and |
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> they too dropped support and forced me to replace a board that was |
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> still working perfectly. |
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The "waiting to catch up issue" is the reason I switched to the LTS |
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kernels. If the kernel got a minor bump the NVidia drivers still worked. |
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When a new LTS kernel came out NVidia would have a new driver |
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almost immediately and through the life of that LTS kernel I got |
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easy kernel updates and easy NVidia driver updates. |
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I don't personally remember NVidia ever dropping a card totally |
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but I did get confused for awhile when they started segmenting their |
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drivers by different families and it was up to me to figure out which |
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driver package handled my card. |
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- Mark |
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