nvidia 343 incoming

[seasons]

The nvidia 343 driver drops support for all cards earlier than Geforce 400 (i.e. "Fermi" ) series.

Today, I see libxnvctrl0 and nvidia-settings moving to 343.xx version. Is it safe for users of cards that are getting dropped to install these?

[absolut]

most likely that the older generations will be supported by a new "legacy" driver...

[towo]

libxnvctrl0 is from nvidia-settings and the new nvidia-settings should also work with older driver-versions.
It was a mistake by me to upload nvidia-settings to extra/unstable, it should go to extra/experimental equal to nvidia-driver.

[ralul]

Hi seasons,

The nvidia 343 driver drops support for all cards earlier than Geforce 400 (i.e. "Fermi" ) series.

I don't  get it what nvidia numbers do indicate. Is it my card is droped:

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02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C79 [GeForce 9400] [10de:0861] (rev b1)?

[seasons]

Is it my card is dropped

Yes. When nvidia 343 hits unstable, we will probably have to switch to a package with a different name.

[GoinEasy9]

The list of supported nVidia GPU's are shown here:
ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/295.53/README/supportedchips.html

I have two 9800GT cards and they are still supported, as is the 9400 that ralul has.  If you go towards the bottom of the page I linked, you should see what cards will be covered by the 173 driver.  To my understanding, it's those cards that are currently covered by the 96 and 71 drivers, that will no longer be supported.

Since I've only recently started using the nVidia blob on my main siduction install, due to nouveau errors locking up my machine, I may not be totally up to date as to what the newer driver will or won't support, but, since the link is from the nVidia download site, I'm assuming it's up to date and accurate.

[seasons]

I didn't say that nvidia completely dropped support for those cards. In fact, they've guaranteed support for 5 years: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142

I am just saying that when 343.xx hits the repo, users of those cards will probably need to switch packages or they will end up dist-upgrading the regular nvidia packages to a version that does not support their card.

[GoinEasy9]

@seasons I understood what you posted, I just wanted to post the current list of nVidia GPU's and their current drivers, and share what I knew.  BTW - thanks for the link.  It shows that nVidia will be changing that appendix page when the 343 driver comes out, my 9800 and ralul's 9400 won't be covered by the new driver, I didn't know that.

[ralul]

Thanks for the info. Makes me a happy nvidia customer as propr. nvidia-340.24 runs smart for me and:

The Linux 340.* legacy driver series is the last to support the G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs, and motherboard chipsets based on them. Support for new Linux kernels and X servers, as well as fixes for critical bugs, will be included in 340.* legacy releases through the end of 2019.

Happy, because probably Debian will have this package in the package tree somewhere further on.

[clubex]

If in doubt go to:

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http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
Enter your card etc and see which drivers are compatible with it.

[CCarpenter]

Irgendwie hab ich seit dem letzten DU ein Problem mit meiner nvidia-Karte

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System:    Host: ccsbox Kernel: 3.16-1.towo-siduction-amd64 x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 4.9.1)
           Desktop: KDE 4.14.0 (Qt 4.8.6) Distro: siduction 12.2.0 Riders on the Storm - kde - (201212092131)
Machine:   Mobo: ASRock model: 890FX Deluxe5 Bios: American Megatrends v: L2.01F date: 10/25/2012
CPU:       Octa core AMD FX-9590 Eight-Core (-MCP-) cache: 16384 KB
           flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 75566
           Clock Speeds: 1: 1400 MHz 2: 1400 MHz 3: 1400 MHz 4: 1400 MHz 5: 4700 MHz 6: 2400 MHz 7: 1400 MHz
           8: 1400 MHz
Memory:    Array-1 capacity: 32 GB devices: 4 EC: None
           Device-1: A1_DIMM0 size: 4 GB speed: 533 MHz type: DDR3 part: CMP8GX3M2A1600C9
           Device-2: A1_DIMM1 size: 4 GB speed: 533 MHz type: DDR3 part: CMP12GX3M3A1600C9
           Device-3: A1_DIMM2 size: 4 GB speed: 533 MHz type: DDR3 part: CMP12GX3M3A1600C9
           Device-4: A1_DIMM3 size: 4 GB speed: 533 MHz type: DDR3 part: CMP8GX3M2A1600C9
Graphics:  Card: NVIDIA GK110 [GeForce GTX 780] bus-ID: 01:00.0
           Display Server: X.Org 1.16.0 driver: nvidia Resolution: 1680x1050@59.88hz
           GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 780/PCIe/SSE2 GLX Version: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 340.32 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio:     Card-1 NVIDIA GK110 HDMI Audio driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
           Card-2 Creative driver: USB Audio usb-ID: 013-002
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.16-1.towo-siduction-amd64
Network:   Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
           driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: b000 bus-ID: 06:00.0
           IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: 00:25:22:cc:2c:f5
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 3756.8GB (72.5% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: OCZ size: 256.1GB
           ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD30EZRX size: 3000.6GB ID-3: /dev/sdc model: SAMSUNG_HD501LJ size: 500.1GB
           Optical: /dev/sr0 model: N/A
           rev: N/A dev-links: cdrom,cdrom4,cdrom5,cdrw,cdrw4,cdrw5,dvd,dvd4,dvd5,dvdrw,dvdrw4,dvdrw5
Partition: ID-1: / size: 219G used: 19G (10%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           label: N/A uuid: 1203ba44-2118-4d43-815f-3b90a925f5e0
           ID-2: /home size: 2.7T used: 2.1T (82%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb1
           label: N/A uuid: 88710bfb-56e9-4e95-a1f4-7e81f6ec9981
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 17.18GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
           label: N/A uuid: 6f8371a3-2f13-428a-8283-515202a4569e
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 30.5C mobo: 34.0C gpu: 0.0:36C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A fan-1: 0 fan-2: 1917 fan-3: 0
Info:      Processes: 255 Uptime: 10 min Memory: 1771.4/16013.3MB Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 4.9.1
           Client: Shell (bash 4.3.221) inxi: 2.2.0
Nachdem der Rechner einwandfrei läuft, bleibt der Bildschirm nach einem Reboot dunkel!
Erst nachdem ich den Rechner Stromlos gemacht habe, springt die Graka wieder an!

Woran könnte das wohl liegen? Bios Problem?