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  • NVIDIA Legacy Driver Updated For X.Org Server 1.15

    Phoronix: NVIDIA Legacy Driver Updated For X.Org Server 1.15

    Making some AMD Catalyst Legacy users jealous is that NVIDIA's still maintaining their old legacy Linux binary driver branches. NVIDIA this morning has updated their legacy Linux driver for supporting the new X.Org Server...

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  • #2
    Very nice. The Geforce 5 FX is now 10 years old and still supported. I even have one lying around somewhere.

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    • #3
      Nvidia will support GPU cards for more than 20 Years rather than going after open source drivers They'de do anything they can (all their best) to avoid being forced to go the open way

      Jokes aside, they are really being honest in releasing such update on legacy driver. Good!

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      • #4
        What is the oldest card that is supported by this driver?

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Apopas View Post
          What is the oldest card that is supported by this driver?
          The GeForce FX 5800 being that it was the first FX card available.

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          • #6
            I think legacy Catalyst drivers would work comparably or worse to open source ones if they were maintained. Stability and feature wise for sure. Performance-wise open source drivers are also pretty close to blobs on old hardware. So no big deal for me. Also the pre-HD 5000 cards weren't meant for OpenCL, so lack of open-source OpenCL driver is not a problem either. Casual users are perfectly fine with open-source drivers on legacy Radeon hardware.

            OTOH open-source drivers for nVidia cards aren't very good and nVidia users really benefit from the binary blob maintained for all generations of GPUs.

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            • #7
              Originally posted by bulletxt View Post
              Nvidia will support GPU cards for more than 20 Years rather than going after open source drivers They'de do anything they can (all their best) to avoid being forced to go the open way

              Jokes aside, they are really being honest in releasing such update on legacy driver. Good!
              A while back I was personally hit when nvidia didn't support their own Geforce4 Series anymore on current drivers, last one working was 96.xx which was flawed. Using compiz for example always resulted in black windows at normal usage, which was unusable. Geforce 4 debuted in 2002 and it was around 2007 when I finally ditched my notebook because of bad nvidia support. I heavily prefer ati these days, whatever might happen, my card will run. I don't need it to be a killer, i just want it to work decent, and that's what we get

              Back to the facts: In the end, since Geforce FX is the first current supported card, and I think it debuted in 2003, we have 10 years, not 20

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              • #8
                This driver was expected, but seems like that will be end of the road

                Support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as well as fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 173.14.* releases through the end of 2013.

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Hibbelharry View Post
                  A while back I was personally hit when nvidia didn't support their own Geforce4 Series anymore on current drivers, last one working was 96.xx which was flawed. Using compiz for example always resulted in black windows at normal usage, which was unusable. Geforce 4 debuted in 2002 and it was around 2007 when I finally ditched my notebook because of bad nvidia support. I heavily prefer ati these days, whatever might happen, my card will run. I don't need it to be a killer, i just want it to work decent, and that's what we get

                  Back to the facts: In the end, since Geforce FX is the first current supported card, and I think it debuted in 2003, we have 10 years, not 20
                  10 years in IT is still a millenium.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by deanjo View Post
                    The GeForce FX 5800 being that it was the first FX card available.
                    But it doesn't say anywhere in the article about FX cards.

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