2020-02-05, 02:44
NOTICE:
Nvidia Legacy GPU owners: Nvidia have announced they are ending support for the xf86-video-nvidia-legacy video driver, and there will be no further updates after 340.108.
It is likely the legacy driver will be broken with kernel 5.6, and will remain broken unless the fixes are trivial.
Now might be a good time to upgrade your Nvidia GPUs, however avoid purchasing another Nvidia GPU as the Kodi plan is to drop Nvidia support entirely in either Kodi 19 or Kodi 20 due to lack of VAAPI support.
The Nouveau driver is being investigated and may bring salvation (it supports legacy hardware, and also supports VAAPI) but that is by no means certain at this time, and it also has major Nvidia-created problems in terms of supporting modern Nvidia GPUs.
My advice for the longer-term would be to replace Nvidia-based hardware with an Intel/AMD GPU replacement, or switch to an ARM-based SBC (save power, better performance than a 10+ year old Nvidia GPU!)
Nvidia Legacy GPU owners: Nvidia have announced they are ending support for the xf86-video-nvidia-legacy video driver, and there will be no further updates after 340.108.
It is likely the legacy driver will be broken with kernel 5.6, and will remain broken unless the fixes are trivial.
Now might be a good time to upgrade your Nvidia GPUs, however avoid purchasing another Nvidia GPU as the Kodi plan is to drop Nvidia support entirely in either Kodi 19 or Kodi 20 due to lack of VAAPI support.
The Nouveau driver is being investigated and may bring salvation (it supports legacy hardware, and also supports VAAPI) but that is by no means certain at this time, and it also has major Nvidia-created problems in terms of supporting modern Nvidia GPUs.
My advice for the longer-term would be to replace Nvidia-based hardware with an Intel/AMD GPU replacement, or switch to an ARM-based SBC (save power, better performance than a 10+ year old Nvidia GPU!)
