NVIDIA To Discontinue Linux Support For Some GPUs

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Aug 28, 2012 1:30 PM EDT
Phoronix; By Michael Larabel
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I have confirmed with NVIDIA that the current 304.xx Linux graphics driver series is "the last release branch for some cards, including GeForce 6/7." NVIDIA has previously said that their 306 Windows graphics driver will remove support for the GeForce 6 and GeForce 7 series graphics processors. With the largely shared code-base between Windows and Linux/Solaris/BSD, it could be presumed that they would be removing the support for all platforms. NVIDIA's Hardy Doelfel confirmed to me today that it's indeed the case.

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