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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:42:57
Message-Id: CAK2H+ecXDO7Jfh=j+seZU07SJ=1G=xOQ78E4btT58ozs3YWCXA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version by Grant Edwards
1 On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 10:50 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com>
2 wrote:
3 >
4 > On 2022-11-21, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
5 >
6 > > I don't personally remember NVidia ever dropping a card totally
7 > > but I did get confused for awhile when they started segmenting their
8 > > drivers by different families and it was up to me to figure out which
9 > > driver package handled my card.
10 >
11 > IIRC, towards the end, that card was still supported by the "legacy"
12 > driver, but that required a kernel so old that other things I used
13 > everyday wouldn't work.
14 >
15
16 Ah, bummer. I guess I probably bought new cards once in a while
17 and never ran into that problem.
18
19 I think there's a bunch of 32-bit users in the same boat... ;-)
20
21 Thanks for the clarification.