[elrepo] NVIDIA is dropping support for G8xx, G9xx and GT2xx chipsets

[Phil Perry]

On 23/09/14 10:50, Phil Perry wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> Nvidia have just release a new short term driver release (version
> 343.22) which announces that support for G8xx, G9xx and GT2xx chipsets
> is to be removed to a new legacy branch:
> 
> http://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/77844/en-us
> 
> [quote]
> Removed support for G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs, and motherboard chipsets
> based on them. Ongoing support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as
> well as fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 340.* legacy
> releases through the end of 2019.
> [/quote]
> 


For information, the following is a list of all supported chipsets and
which driver they are supported by.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/343.22/README/supportedchips.html