Bug 30550

Translation errors :

"Since the performance of the new driver is not yet optimal for these cards"

Since the performance of the Nouveau driver is not yet optimal for these cards.

What is your question or request in particular? As i can see there are no efforts to drop any driver in Mageia 9. In Mageia 9 cauldron we have following drivers:

dkms-nvidia390-390.151-2.mga9.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
x11-driver-video-nvidia390-390.151-2.mga9.nonfree.x86_64.rpm

dkms-nvidia470-470.129.06-1.mga9.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
x11-driver-video-nvidia470-470.129.06-1.mga9.nonfree.x86_64.rpm

dkms-nvidia-current-510.73.05-1.mga9.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current-510.73.05-1.mga9.nonfree.x86_64.rpm

In Mageia 8 the 510 driver series is only available via backports. So the 470 branch is still the main branch for Mageia 8.

Hello,
Thank you for taking time to answer me.
I am thinking of users of Nvidia cards, having used the "current" when installing Mageia 8 (for example), supporting cards of the 7XX series and who will find themselves unable to switch to graphics mode because the latest version of "current" no longer supports these cards.
However, if we consult Mageia AppDB:
x11-driver-video-nvidia-current : NVIDIA proprietary X.org driver and libraries for GeForce 635 and later cards
However, the latest version of the Nvidia driver (510) no longer supports these cards.
So the list of correspondence between hardware and drivers is, I think, to be modified.

Severity: normal => critical

(In reply to sturmvogel from comment #3)
> In Mageia 8 the 510 driver series is only available via backports. So the
> 470 branch is still the main branch for Mageia 8.

Thank you very much for the precision.
Will the 470 version remain present under Mageia 8 and under Mageia 9?

(In reply to Sébastien Boré from comment #4)
> I am thinking of users of Nvidia cards, having used the "current" when
> installing Mageia 8 (for example), supporting cards of the 7XX series and
> who will find themselves unable to switch to graphics mode because the
> latest version of "current" no longer supports these cards.

Thats not right. If you install Mageia 8 and do an full update, using nvidia-current, you will get the 470 series as latest driver, except:

- you have backports willingly enabled
- you have backports in your repos and are hit by bug 29830

The 510 driver series was only added to backports to support actual graphic adapters like RTX 3050 (see also https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=14555&p=85561&hilit=3080#p85561)

Im dropping again the severity because of following reasons:
- no plans to drop 470 driver support in Mageia 8
- no issue with 6xx/7xx graphic cards with 470 driver series
- no issues with modern graphic cards with 510 driver series from backports
- only a minor description "issue" between 470/510 drivers
..

Severity: critical => normal

Do you know if the 470 driver will also be present in mageia 9? Because there are a lot of bug fixes and improvements compared to the old 390.
Regarding the severity, yes I'm sorry, unfortunately I opened the ticket quite quickly.

Thanks for the link.

Please see my comment 2. We have 390, 470 and 510 in Mageia 9 cauldron. As long as there are no compatibility issues none of them should/will be dropped.

Many thanks!

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED

If I understand correctly, there is no problem about us supporting hardware.
- but *users need to find it!* ;)

§ the description for the 510 driver need to be corrected to not list incompatible cards, 6XX, 7XX etc etc series not supported by this driver.

§ also check/correct info for 470 driver that it do not support newer cards (state better than "newer cards").  (For mga8 optionally in package summary (as seen in drakrpm) tell to check 510 in backports for later cards.)

IMO, it is enough to have this information updated in next updates

Resolution: FIXED => (none)
Status: RESOLVED => REOPENED
Whiteboard: (none) => MGA8TOO
Version: 8 => Cauldron
CC: (none) => fri

That's exactly it! Thanks ! :)

The hardware support is good, just "modify" the indications.

The 47X.XX series drivers will be the last to support the Kepler architecture:
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5202

Cards : GeForce Desktop GPUs based on Kepler architecture include:

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Z
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Black
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Ti
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (192-bit)
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 Ti OEM
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 740
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 730
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 720
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 710
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti Boost
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650
    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 640
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 635
    NVIDIA GeForce GT 630

Thank you for noticing us.

Assigning to maintainers.

Assignee: bugsquad => kernel

Is the list updated so this can be closed?