What do with Pascal GPU?

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> lspci | grep -i nvidia
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP107M [GeForce MX350] (rev a1)

Above I am wrote about my dGPU on Asus Zenbook flip 15. I heard NVidia will stop support my GPU. What to do:

  1. Simply block older NVidia Driver, so system would not update it and (probably) would not update kernel?
  2. Install another package (maybe OpenSUSE team will keep legacy driver pacakge)?
  3. Try partial open NVidia driver (open kernel + closed user space)?

I try open kernel previously, but (as I remember), I’ve got some error messages around firmware.

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The MX350 is supported by the G06 aka v580 driver. What is your issue whith it? When the next driver series (aka G07) will show up, G06 will still work and be available like the G05 and G04 drivers (legacy) atm.

The legacy G06 drivers (v580) will recieve security updates until end of 2028. There won’t be any new features for the drivers, which will straight go into the new branch.

So not sure what you are worrying about…

There is no automatic switching between G04/G05/G06/G07 drivers when doing a zypper dup. So there is zero need to lock anything…

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Ok. I was scarred, because I do not remember there is special version of driver for my GPU series. Thanks!
I hope Open Drivers will progress and improve I can switch to it until three years from now.

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There won’t be any further development of the open source driver from Nvidia for this legacy card. The Pascal cards will be supported only by the v580 drivers. That means no further development or features for the v580 branch. Only security fixes. In 3 years the security support for this legacy card/driver will end and you only have the possibility to use nouveau (or buy a new card). There might still be a possibility that you can use the v580 drivers after 2028, but you will have possibly unpatched security issues (when the v580 series still gets patched to work with the actual kernels in 3 years).

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