On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 6:58 AM Mark @ GMail <mrkr.st(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, 2024-03-17 at 06:15 -0700, Neal Gompa wrote:
> NVIDIA will be discontinuing the 470 series driver later this year:
>
https://endoflife.date/nvidia
>
I feel like I'm asking the wrong questions here. I don't particularly
want a 470 driver, just the latest driver. The nVidia website shows
the latest version as 470.239.06, but that's later than what the Fedora
repo seems to offer.
It sounds like what I *really* need is a 5xx driver, beyond 525
according to Onuralp, and perhaps just to use the 550 driver that's
already on my system. The question is, will this drive the card?
No. Your card is too old. You'd have to upgrade your card to use newer
drivers. If you get a Turing or newer (GTX 1600 or RTX 2000 or newer)
card, then you can either choose to use the latest proprietary NVIDIA
driver or the new Nouveau+NVK stack built into the operating system.
However your current card is so old that it probably works reasonably
okay with nouveau too. The troublesome cards where you *must* use the
proprietary driver are the GTX 900 and the GTX 1000 cards.
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