On 22/11/14 15:34, Mark Goldstein wrote:
Mark Goldstein composed on 2014-11-22 09:10 (UTC+0200):
Felix Miata wrote: In any case, the NVidia drivers for "old" GeForce FX series are not supported anymore. Old jokes about MS SW upgrades causing users to buy new HW unfortunately hold for Linux as well :-(
NVidia drivers are provided by NVidia. You could try complaining to NVidia, but don't forget it's in the business of selling hardware. Yes, I understand that. Note that 173.xxxx branch was dropped after
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Felix Miata
wrote: the "incompatible" changes in one of opensource components: kernel and/or x server. I do not have enough knowledge to say whether these changes were necessary and why it was not possible to keep backward compatibility. These things happen from time to time.
AIUI it is the result of legacy kernel features being removed and NVidia not being prepared to update their code. There was plenty of time (years) between implementation of the replacement kernel features and removal of the legacy code. This sort of code housekeeping has to be done to prevent the kernel balooning; remove potentially compromised code; improve efficiency and development processes among many other reasons...
Nouveau is FOSS. For nouveau to continue to provide support for old chips, there need to be community members testing those old chips using betaware and reporting bugs for any observed failures. The developers seem to upgrade their hardware more often than the general population and not keep the old stuff in use, if at all, depending on the people who depend on old hardware continuing to work being involved in the FOSS process.
Unfortunately, nouveau never worked well on my HW (two main issues: fickering, and shifting of the view area of the screen. I use the same screen on my main machine and on old test machine, with KVM), so I'm normally switching to proprietary driver.
This (especially "shifting of the view area") sounds more like an issue with the KVM (in-)correctly reporting or transferring monitor metrics, or otherwise confusing the display adaptor/monitor communication than an issue with the nouveau driver per se. I have often seen similar problems when there is a sync rate or resolution difference between machines sharing a monitor on KVM. £0.02 Dx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org