On 02/08/2015 11:14 AM, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > .. What made my decision to add > nidia to my bad hardware manufacturers list was: not long ago they stopped > releasing new binary drivers (compatible with new kernels/glibc) for some > old cards I have my department. The machines, though old, still serve as > generic workstations... This did it: nvidia now in my bad hardware > manufacturers list > ATI/AMD does the same thing with their Catalyst drivers. Try finding a recent Catalyst driver for a still otherwise very useful X800. My experience with nVidia is that they do tend to support their older chips a bit longer in some cases. Having said that, I have found the open source radeon drivers to expose more features than the open source noveau drivers do. The aforementioned X800 is well-supported in the open source drivers (all the way back to the really old Radeon 7000 series (R100) is supported).