[GTALUG] Recommendation for a media center front end?

[Michael Galea]

On 2024-09-10 15:17, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote:
> On 2024-09-09 12:26, Michael Galea via talk wrote:
>>> This happened to me.  I have an Nvidia GeForce GTX 650 and Fedora 40.
>>>
>>> - my NVidia card is no longer supported by current proprietary drivers
>>>
>>> - it is supported by "legacy" proprietary drivers
> [snip]
>> No, I have an older card. a GT 350. For years I have been using the
>> nvidia-legacy-390xx series of 'old' nvidia drivers.  But after a 
>> recent upgrade
>> I had no graphical support after boot. I had an nvidia kernel module, 
>> but glx
>> couldn't find support for my video card. Later, I saw some evidence that
>> support for my card was being dropped out the legacy support, so I am
>> guessing that is what happened.
> 
> It is one of the reasons to be very hesitant to apply "updates" to a 
> running system. You never know what is going to break or change in a 
> negative way. I still need to downgrade Thunderbird, and report a loss 
> of a function in the most recent version of LibreOffice.
> 
> If Nvidia has dropped support for the GT 350 I will be having a problem 
> in the not too distant future. I'm using a GeForce GTX 1050 which is 
> much older card. I use the proprietary nvidia 545.29.06 driver. Which 
> version is dropping GT 350 and older?
> 
You may be OK. I was using the debian package nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver 
                                version 390.157-8.  The documentation at 
https://packages.debian.org/sid/nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver contains a 
list of drivers for which will not be supported going forward. My card 
is on that list, but GTX 1050 was not.

-- 
Michael Galea