Very incomplete table I made on driver timelines...
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Originally posted by Sidicas View PostVery incomplete table I made on driver timelines...
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/...EVlNl95MmZRYnc
nvidia have iirc not been able to support a newer xorg (and that was by 1week and over a misunderstanding). ati lag by a good few weeks if not longer.
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Originally posted by RealNC View PostThe 96.x drivers was discontinued, I think.
The driver for TNT and TNT2 (71xx) has indeed not been updated for a while now. I think, but I'm not sure, the last xorg-server it supports is 1.7
@Sidicas: You should use the xorg-server version (1.xx), it's much more informative than the Xorg version (7.x)
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Originally posted by roland View PostThat's an interesting response to news about nvidia *dropping* support for a bunch of hardware.
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I now actually read the full announcement. The 304 branch will be supported until the end of 2017! That's a helluva long time. I was thinking two years tops. Five years, that's quite a commitment.
The 173 branch will be supported until the end of 2013. That's not nearly as much, but still cool.
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Originally posted by Gusar View PostI now actually read the full announcement. The 304 branch will be supported until the end of 2017! That's a helluva long time. I was thinking two years tops. Five years, that's quite a commitment.
The 173 branch will be supported until the end of 2013. That's not nearly as much, but still cool.
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I'm just glad they squeezed in xrandr support before jettisoning it as legacy so at least I can have proper multiple monitor support on my old geforce 6 desktop and geforce 7 laptop. I agree in an earlier post that it would have been nice to have KMS support as well but then who knows if that will ever be supported by the binary blob?
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Originally posted by logistiker View PostI agree in an earlier post that it would have been nice to have KMS support as well but then who knows if that will ever be supported by the binary blob?
The nvidia driver has used kernel modesetting since forever. Since before there was KMS. There's no reason whatsoever for them to use KMS.
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Originally posted by Gusar View PostHere we go *again*...
The nvidia driver has used kernel modesetting since forever. Since before there was KMS. There's no reason whatsoever for them to use KMS.
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