Hi all,
I just wanted to give a heads up to any NVIDIA users that NVIDIA are dropping support for older hardware based on G8xxx, G9xxx and GT2xx chipsets in their latest display drivers. The last version to support these older chipsets will be the current Long Lived 340.xx branch.
If anyone is using NVIDIA driver packages from elrepo, legacy 340.xx driver packages are now available for those affected. There is a thread on the elrepo mailing list here:
http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2014-September/002362.html http://lists.elrepo.org/pipermail/elrepo/2014-December/002447.html
There is also an updated version of nvidia-detect (v343.36) available which will tell users if they are affected and need to switch to the new 340.xx legacy driver packages or whether their hardware will continue to be supported by future NVIDIA driver releases.
Obviously we would like to avoid a situation where folks 'yum update' their drivers to a release that doesn't support their hardware and breaks their system. Thus we would like to help users who will be affected transition to the correct legacy driver now and so avoid future issues.
If anyone needs any advice / help, please just ask.