Edward O'Callaghan wrote: > > I have the understanding that some older nvidia cards are not support > by the nvidia driver but are by nv, however some newer cards the case > is the other way around. > Could the installer not default to the nvidia to be consistent with > the after install experience that cde-login/Xorg defaults to (nvidia > driver) and choice to use nv driver if the card is detected to be a > older series ? > Define older. The NV1x/2x GPUs (up to seven years old) are supported by the legacy 96xx driver. The new G8x GPUs are supported by the current driver.
Ignoring the miniroot space issue and the X server is already running in graphical install mode, the big issue would be from where we extract the nvidia driver and which driver to extract. We are constantly upgrading the nv driver used in the miniroot to cover new devices without (hopefully) abandoning old devices. Which new board did the nv driver not recognize?
