securitybreach Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 nvidia-340xx and nvidia 2014-10-05 - Sven-Hendrik Haase As NVIDIA dropped support for G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs with the release of 343.22, there now is set of nvidia-340xx packages supporting those older GPUs. 340xx will receive support until the end of 2019 according to NVIDIA. Users of older GPUs should consider switching to nvidia-340xx. The nvidia-343.22 and nvidia-340xx-340.46 packages will be in testing for a few days. URL: https://www.archlinu...0xx-and-nvidia/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolphil Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Thank you, I was wondering about that since I have numerous Legacy cards.. jolphil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cluttermagnet Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 I wonder how that translates for me personally, in terms of which old legacy AGP cards will still work under Linux? I have some pretty old ones here and there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 9, 2014 Author Share Posted October 9, 2014 Well I did a bit of research and it seems like the kernel still supports AGP (3.17 included). As far as nvidia and ati are concerned, I am not for sure so you may have to use the floss drivers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cluttermagnet Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 That's nice to know, Josh. Well, I'm gradually upgrading video cards anyway, as Betty and I both dislike when card games display jerky card motion when dragging them. Usually I have found the video card to be the weak link in that situation, rather than the CPU or low installed memory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 With the really old video your only chance may be to use the open source drivers. Nouveau seems to work pretty well with the NV 8000 series and older. I've had troublw with the GT4XX and 5XX series using Nouveau. The AMD Radeon driver is also pretty good with legacy cards and also with trailing edge stuff like the AMD 6XXX and 7XXX series of GPUs. I think with AGP you can't go much higher than NV 6200 which definitely would be a legacy situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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