On 2022-11-21, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > I did re-emerge the nvidia drivers for the old kernel. [...] > > If I get bored, and it warms up a little, I may build a 5.19 kernel. > Thing is, by the time I get around to rebooting, nvidia may have updated > and the new one I already got will work. :/
About 15 years ago, after a bad experience with ATI dropping Linux driver support for a card that was only a year old (and no luck getting the open source driver to work reliably), I switched to NVidia (mostly Qaudro cards -- fanless until that ceased to be an option). They always worked great using the NVidia blob drivers, but using NVidia drivers was a constant source of minor pain. Often kernel updates had to be postponed until NVidia driver support caught up, and they too dropped support and forced me to replace a board that was still working perfectly. Eventually, I just gave up and started using built-in Intel graphics. Life was much easier. A high-end gamer probably wouldn't be happy, but my mid-range mainboard happily drove three decent-sized displays (two DVI and one DP) at their native resolutions. I find the same to be true on my newer AMD system with built-in Radeon Vega graphics. It too "just works" with the in-kernel-tree support and open-source Xorg drivers. I did have to give up the option of having multiple X11 screens. The proprietary NVidia driver supported multiple screens, but the drivers for built-in Intel and Radeon drivers don't seem to. -- Grant