What to do with OLD nvidia

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2021 at 16:18, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What is everyone doing for OLD nvidia hardware (GT218 ION) type hardware. Hardware still works- but installing HWE (5.11) kernel and breaks NVIDIA binary.  bummer.

I can only tell you that I had to retire 3  old nVidia cards at work recently.

I was trying to configure a triple-head PC but no 2 are the same GPU
generation, so they can't be used side-by-side, and none of them is
supported by modern nVidia drivers that work on kernel 5.anything.

$WORK gave me an old AMD card that was lying in the storeroom. It's a
huge double-slot double-fan monster thing, but it works and drives 3
monitors.

> I tried to get nouveau to run - it comes up - but playing video is dropping frames (vlc).
> Do I not have something configured right for nouveau ?

AFAIK Nouveau has no config options at all.

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