It's already been pushed out to users of CachyOS
NVIDIA 565.77 Linux Driver Released As First Stable R565 Build
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Originally posted by DanL View PostI'm surprised they haven't split off Maxwell/Pascal into a legacy branch yet.
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Originally posted by dragon321 View Post
They kinda did, open source kernel module is Turing and newer only and since 560 it’s recommended for supported GPUs. Likely proprietary module will be dropped when they will drop support for Maxwell and Pascal.
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Originally posted by bug77 View Post
True, but they won't drop Maxwell and Pascal for years to come. Like DanL pointed out, they park older architectures in legacy branches. But those are still receiving bug fixes and made compatible with newer kernels, X or Wayland servers. It's why I don't mind much Nvidia drivers being close-sourced: the open community wouldn't do a better job anyway.
Community is already doing better job. Using old proprietary NVIDIA drivers on modern Linux is not good experience. Even if you somehow manage to install them, which is not always the case, you are stuck with old driver that got last update years ago. You can also forget about using Wayland, even current X.Org Server is not guaranteed to work.. Meanwhile not only old Radeon or Intel GPUs are working fine on modern Linux and support current X.Org Server and Wayland but also sometimes they get updates from community.Last edited by dragon321; 06 December 2024, 12:53 PM.
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Originally posted by dragon321 View PostThey might not drop support for Maxwell and Pascal but they might set proprietary module as "legacy" and focus on open source module. NVIDIA even said that this is their long term goal.
Originally posted by dragon321 View PostExcept community does better job with supporting old hardware. Using old proprietary NVIDIA drivers on modern Linux is not good experience. Even if you somehow manage to install them, which is not always the case, you are stuck with old driver that got last update years ago. You can also forget about using Wayland, even current X.Org Server is not guaranteed to work.. Meanwhile not only old Radeon or Intel GPUs are working fine on modern Linux and support current X.Org Server and Wayland but also sometimes they get updates from community.
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Originally posted by dragon321 View PostCommunity is already doing better job. Using old proprietary NVIDIA drivers on modern Linux is not good experience.
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Originally posted by bug77 View PostSupport for GeForce 400 (14yo Fermi) only ceased 2 years ago. That's long enough for me, Idk how much better the community does once AMD or Intel drops support.It's up to each project.
The Linux kernel amdgpu & radeon drivers have KMS and HW acceleration support for all released Radeon GPUs back to the original R100 from around the millennium.
Current Mesa supports "only" Radeons from the last ~20 years (R300 family and newer), all of those work with latest Xorg and Wayland compositors (some Wayland compositors might require functionality lacking from the oldest supported Radeons). There's a Mesa "amber" branch which still allows running latest Xorg with HW acceleration on even older R100/R200 family Radeons.
It's a similar story on the Intel side.
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