Fedora is the only distro I've tried that currently works OOTB with one of my machines that has a GTX 660

[new_vintage]

fedora actually obsoleted my very old nvidia graphic card

Interesting. Where is the line for you? Fedora is the only distro I've tried that currently works OOTB with one of my machines that has a GTX 660. I'm using the 390 series driver which works fine. It may be possible to use a 470 series. I intend to try with a GTX 560 as well.

 

[APTI]

Interesting. Where is the line for you? Fedora is the only distro I've tried that currently works OOTB with one of my machines that has a GTX 660. I'm using the 390 series driver which works fine. It may be possible to use a 470 series. I intend to try with a GTX 560 as well.

what line are you referring to? When it comes to what works and does not, I find very little that does not, but if it does not I just swap it out. I have a computer shop that specializes in linux so I tend to have lots of stuff.

 

[f33dm3bits]

Interesting. Where is the line for you? Fedora is the only distro I've tried that currently works OOTB with one of my machines that has a GTX 660. I'm using the 390 series driver which works fine. It may be possible to use a 470 series. I intend to try with a GTX 560 as well.

what line are you referring to? When it comes to what works and does not, I find very little that does not, but if it does not I just swap it out. I have a computer shop that specializes in linux so I tend to have lots of stuff.

@new_vintage Is there a question here, as it's getting confusing as you sort of hijacked this topic. I would prefer to move your reply and the responses of those to a new topic but I'm not sure what your question is?

 

[new_vintage]

what line are you referring to? When it comes to what works and does not, I find very little that does not, but if it does not I just swap it out.

The line between what works and what doesn't. There's not a lot like my GTX 660 or 560 still around. What did you have to swap out?

 

[APTI]

The line between what works and what doesn't. There's not a lot like my GTX 660 or 560 still around. What did you have to swap out?

If you get no graphic then it does not work. That is the line for me.
in the end I had to swap out the entire machine because the video was on board. I was unable to make it accept a new card. However on other machines with similar problem I just replaced the graphics card or bypassed it with a plug in.

 

[new_vintage]

This whole thread makes me want to get out my GTX 260s and 9800 GT.

 

[f33dm3bits]

@new_vintage I moved your replies and those responding to you from the other thread to a new topic for yourself, as you were hijacking someone else's topic. Please next time start your own topic if you have something that you want to share or say that doesn't have much to do with the topic you are responding to.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@new_vintage :-

To me, it mostly boils down to this; for such 'older' GPUs, can you - or can you not - make an appropriate 'legacy' (i.e., unsupported) driver work with your system?

This is almost always an issue with nVidia cards. Support for AMD cards is pretty much baked-in to the kernel by now.

I'm kind of in a similar position myself, since the long-running support for Pascal-based cards - like my own GT 1030 - was finally dropped just a few releases back. Which means it's either 'legacy' or 'nouveau'....or else I ditch the GPU altogether, and simply revert to the on-die Intel iGPU.

Decisions, decisions.... I've opted to remain with the last 'official' driver that still supports the card. It works fine. I'm happy with it....and for those few of my Puppies that won't accept the official driver - for whatever reason - 'nouveau' is acceptable for what I do with it.


Mike.