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On 2022-11-21, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> I did re-emerge the nvidia drivers for the old kernel. [...] |
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> If I get bored, and it warms up a little, I may build a 5.19 kernel. |
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> Thing is, by the time I get around to rebooting, nvidia may have updated |
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> and the new one I already got will work. :/ |
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About 15 years ago, after a bad experience with ATI dropping Linux |
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driver support for a card that was only a year old (and no luck |
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getting the open source driver to work reliably), I switched to NVidia |
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(mostly Qaudro cards -- fanless until that ceased to be an |
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option). 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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Eventually, I just gave up and started using built-in Intel |
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graphics. Life was much easier. A high-end gamer probably wouldn't be |
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happy, but my mid-range mainboard happily drove three decent-sized |
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displays (two DVI and one DP) at their native resolutions. I find the |
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same to be true on my newer AMD system with built-in Radeon Vega |
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graphics. It too "just works" with the in-kernel-tree support and |
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open-source Xorg drivers. |
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I did have to give up the option of having multiple X11 screens. The |
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proprietary NVidia driver supported multiple screens, but the drivers |
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for built-in Intel and Radeon drivers don't seem to. |
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Grant |
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