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I got used to it back in the days. I would download the driver from Nvidia, make the installer executable. Then drop into run level 3 and run the installer from
by vondur 3y ago
I got used to it back in the days. I would download the driver from Nvidia, make the installer executable. Then drop into run level 3 and run the installer from there. Reboot, and it worked. Every time there was a kernel upgrade I believe you needed to reinstall the drivers, as the Nvidia software installed kmod's. Needless to say, I use ATI cards now. I wonder if Nvidia supported Wayland natively, maybe the installations will go much smoother?
- pmontra 3y agoI had a laptop with an ATI card, 2006 to 2013. Then some 3.x kernel dropped the driver and I had to choose between buying a new laptop and stop upgrading the kernel. I stopped the upgrade but no more ATI cards for me after that experience.
- aidenn0 3y agoNowadays their Linux support is probably better than nvidia; when I bought my nvidia card, the amdgpu drivers were just starting to be a thing, and the radeon drivers were so bad I went nvidia, and it's been a pain ever since. I recently got wayland working, but to give you an idea of performance, I get 86FPS on glxgears when maximized on my 1200p screen.