Daemon Bernstein <b...@daemonbernstein.com> writes: > Also, there are NO Nvidia drivers for my old video card on those newer > distributions, and older drivers will not install.
Just as a side note, we're not very happy about this situation either, but because the drivers are non-free and NVIDIA doesn't keep supporting them, there's not a lot we can do about it. They constantly drop support for newer cards and don't port older drivers to newer kernels or X servers, and thus force this endless upgrade treadmill. We would have to keep around old Linux kernels and old X servers in order to keep the old drivers working, and that has too many tentacles and other problems (not to mention the lack of security support for the older software). I now avoid buying any products from NVIDIA if I can possibly avoid it, in large part because of this. That of course doesn't help if you already own them, sadly. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
