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

Phil Perry phil at elrepo.org
Wed Feb 4 14:58:05 EST 2015


On 18/01/15 18:41, Phil Perry wrote:
> Bump to say NVIDIA have released 346.35 as their new Long Lived driver.
> 
> We have built this driver and it's now available in the testing repository.
> 
> THIS DRIVER DROPS SUPPORT FOR OLDER G8xxx, G9xxx, and GT2xx GPUs
> 
> Users with older unsupported cards should migrate to the legacy
> kmod-nvidia-340xx package.
> 
> If at all unsure, please update and run the latest version of
> nvidia-detect to determine the correct driver for your card.
> 
> The new 346.35 driver packages will stay in testing for at least a week
> to allow users time to migrate.
> 

I've not received any adverse reports so I'm going to promote these
packages to the main repository.

Phil




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