What do you do with an old nvidia card that you can no longer get drivers for it?

[JulyRC]

This is the age or year of change for technology. In my experience and from a practical standpoint, any PC over 15 or even 10 years old has outdated and/or unworthy upgradable hardware. I had to throw away several Laptops with 2 core or similar cpu that were just too slow and lagging. I have one with core i3 and it's already showing it's age.
At any rate, getting a system with newer cpu's would be best and will last a few more years. Also have in mind the RAMS. 6 Rams or more is best, and a hard disk of at least 500 GB.

 

[NicWelds]

Since I don't game, that is not exactly my experience. My xfce panel started flashing every time I clicked on an icon it. Then when I tried to run the older recommended graphic driver the mintreport reported that something was crashing. I did some google searching and found out that it was the recommended graphic driver that was causing the crashing. And I also found out it was the latest graphic driver that was causing the panel to flash. So I had to keep researching and trial and error to find a graphic driver version that didn't cause either one of these issues. On that computer I am currently running the driver 570.211.01 from a Ubuntu PPA. Then I had to enable Force Composition Pipeline and Force Full Composition Pipeline to get the flashing to stop. Anyways that is the combination that happens to be working on that computer. I still wonder if I were to unhook the PPA, install the 570 from the Mint Repositories and enable the Force Composition Pipeline and Force Full Composition Pipeline it that would of fixed my problem too or not. I had to do so much messing around to try to get something to work correctly, that I didn't want to take the time undoing everything just to try that.

Alright so not really the exact thing.

 

[JulyRC]

same the card lol
so you you have 2 options
1-use third party driver with risks and cant read new opengl libraries
2-use nouveau with his own problems

"Pizza, Mozzarella" Good name for a creative distro.

 

[Deleted member 197709]

Well, I have had many Nvidia Cards from the beginning, starting back in the 90's. I'm not a collector or keep stuff that gets totally outdated. Some fizzled over time, some just got updated to better models, and off to to the recycle bin they went.

 

[lazy_lain]

"Pizza, Mozzarella" Good name for a creative distro.

rella rella rella rella

gyro will be proud with this
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but i think the distros is each similar

 

[MikeWalsh]

Maybe that's the reason some are still using 32bit...didn't you just update your Graphics Card.

@bob466 :-

Aye, you're right; I did. And the PSU and CPU, as well.....my first hardware upgrades for almost 6 years, and only made possible by an unexpected "windfall". I made use of some of the welcome extra cash while I had the chance, I admit; nothing else was hurting, so......yeah.

But it's very rare I invest in new hardware just for the sake of doing so. Most of that was "future-proofing"; keeping the desktop rig usable for as long as is feasible. (I maxed-out the RAM during the first year of COVID......running Puppy as I do, that 32 GB is still more than ample for me).

As for 32-bit distros, heh; I run a dozen or more 64-bit Puppies - across several generations - and alongside these I run a pair of 32-bit Puppies.....longstanding, "old" favourites of mine. Both of which employ the trick pioneered by one of our devs; a self-contained custom SFS package, which when loaded will let the user run 64-bit applications in a 32-bit Puppy. I even do this via a chroot; I know it sounds horrendously complex, but I enjoy the challenge of getting oddball set-ups functional & 'working'.

Gotta find stuff to keep those old grey cells active!


Mike.

 

[bob466]

Just over three years ago my Tower's Motherboard failed..I had to get a new CPU and Ram because old Motherboard was socket 1150 and Legacy...new one was socket 1700 and UEFI only.

Sometimes you don't get a choice but that's life. The best thing I ever did was switch to SSDs...they leave HDDs for dead.