Re: Insanely frustrating finding older distributions
Daemon Bernstein <bach@daemonbernstein.com> writes:
> Also, there are NO Nvidia drivers for my old video card on those newer
> distributions, and older drivers will not install.
Just as a side note, we're not very happy about this situation either, but
because the drivers are non-free and NVIDIA doesn't keep supporting them,
there's not a lot we can do about it. They constantly drop support for
newer cards and don't port older drivers to newer kernels or X servers,
and thus force this endless upgrade treadmill. We would have to keep
around old Linux kernels and old X servers in order to keep the old
drivers working, and that has too many tentacles and other problems (not
to mention the lack of security support for the older software).
I now avoid buying any products from NVIDIA if I can possibly avoid it, in
large part because of this. That of course doesn't help if you already
own them, sadly.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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