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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 09:58:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK2H+ee1mp-7ijKocBDcb6hacd1iU456DCfT3UjvqAVHCz7+Sw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tlg7v1$h5b$1@ciao.gmane.io>

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 9:11 AM Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>  They always worked great using the NVidia blob drivers, but
> using NVidia drivers was a constant source of minor pain. Often kernel
> updates had to be postponed until NVidia driver support caught up, and
> they too dropped support and forced me to replace a board that was
> still working perfectly.

The "waiting to catch up issue" is the reason I switched to the LTS
kernels. If the kernel got a minor bump the NVidia drivers still worked.

When a new LTS kernel came out NVidia would have a new driver
almost immediately and through the life of that LTS kernel I got
easy kernel updates and easy NVidia driver updates.

I don't personally remember NVidia ever dropping a card totally
but I did get confused for awhile when they started segmenting their
drivers by different families and it was up to me to figure out which
driver package handled my card.

- Mark

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-21 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-11  6:25 [gentoo-user] Upgrading from 5.14 to 6.0 version Dale
2022-11-11 10:30 ` Peter Humphrey
2022-11-11 10:35   ` Arve Barsnes
2022-11-11 10:56     ` Wols Lists
2022-11-11 18:12     ` Laurence Perkins
2022-11-11 12:24 ` hitachi303
2022-11-11 19:18   ` Dale
2022-11-11 22:08     ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2022-11-11 14:41 ` Rich Freeman
2022-11-11 19:42   ` Dale
2022-11-11 18:04 ` Laurence Perkins
2022-11-12 12:08 ` ralfconn
2022-11-12 16:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2022-11-12 18:22   ` Dale
2022-11-12 18:43     ` Mark Knecht
2022-11-12 19:13     ` Wol
2022-11-12 20:02       ` Nikos Chantziaras
2022-11-12 20:03       ` Mark Knecht
2022-11-12 21:37         ` Dale
2022-11-14 19:57           ` Nikos Chantziaras
2022-11-14 21:05             ` Dale
2022-11-14 21:44               ` Michael
2022-11-14 23:56                 ` Wol
2022-11-15  0:10                 ` Dale
2022-11-15 17:46                   ` Laurence Perkins
2022-11-15  2:36                 ` Grant Edwards
2022-11-14 21:44               ` Mark Knecht
2022-11-12 21:17       ` Rich Freeman
2022-11-21  6:10 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2022-11-21 12:20   ` Rich Freeman
2022-11-21 20:52     ` Dale
2022-11-21 16:11   ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2022-11-21 16:27     ` Michael
2022-11-21 16:50       ` Grant Edwards
2022-11-21 17:24         ` Michael
2022-11-21 18:12           ` Grant Edwards
2022-11-21 19:26             ` Michael
2022-11-21 19:37               ` Grant Edwards
2022-11-21 21:30                 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2022-11-21 18:15           ` Laurence Perkins
2022-11-22 19:01             ` Wol
2022-11-21 16:58     ` Mark Knecht [this message]
2022-11-21 17:49       ` Grant Edwards
2022-11-21 19:42         ` Mark Knecht

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