#sgfxi — Public Fediverse posts

@arstechnica I have to track nvidia drivers for #inxi and #sgfxi in *nix. What's surprising is how long it's taking to make pre Turing/Ampere drivers legacy. That was supposed to come over a year ago. Legacy does not mean no support. Legacy drivers get several years more support. There's nothing new here.

The cut happens because Turing and newer have moved most of driver into firmware. #Linux kernel will use open source wrapper to talk to firmware.
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@drcalambre or was it #smxi that is useful. That's almost in maintenance mode now but me and another guy keep the #nvidia drivers and kernel version support tests reasonably current. #sgfxi however isn't fully functional anymore. But I can't test because I stopped using non free nvidia cards. Switched to #AMD and free kernel drivers (radeon/amdgpu). I got tired of dumping perfectly fine nvidia gfx cards as drivers hit EOL. And nouveau didn't work for me so gave up.