On Nov 23, 2021, at 22:54, Tim via users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2021-11-23 at 12:58 -0600, Roger Heflin wrote:
>> This is the magic decoder ring web page. The most recent cards that
>> I think were kicked out are anything with a GK* in the code name
>> (kepler). So any kepler cards seem to stop at 470.X. And GF*
>> stopped a while ago at 340 I think. If your card just stopped
>> working it is probably a GK* variant card.
>>
>> But some models have 2 generations of chips.
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units#GeForce_700_series
>
> I gave up on NVidia video a long time ago, and this is one of the
> things that bugs me about having cards that *could* be used, but if
> only you could figure out how to do it:
>
> *It's* the damn computer, why should *we* have to figure out which
> driver to install?
>
> Either they could have one large package with everything it needs to
> install the one that you do (somewhat akin to CUPS, though I know it
> doesn't have absolutely everything within itself). Or, they could have
> a detector package which surveys your graphics hardware and picks the
> right driver package to download and install.
I know the ELrepo nvidia packages (for RHEL) have a nvidia-detect package (and
corresponding yum plug-in) that makes it easy to install the appropriate
package, giving you some automation.
http://elrepo.org/tiki/nvidia-detect
Perhaps someone needs to port this over to Fedora, dnf, and rpmfusion?
—
Jonathan Billings
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