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List:       freedesktop-xorg
Subject:    Re: NVidia GTX 980 Fedora vs older kernels
From:       Nigel Sollars <nsollars () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-10-05 14:30:12
Message-ID: CAG6aBkU3R7pd2BOUVYY_R+z0MGv6NcMJ4Zv7yZXLRM=S1+i14g () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hi,

To take a pure stab at this,  not only ( probably ) does the open driver
NOT support that one in older kernels ( binary blobs etc etc ).   I wonder
if something internal in the Kernel is needed also ( dependency )  for the
Nvidia driver should you go that route.

Regards

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Zach W. <zwolfe21@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I've tried exploring this on forums and such without answer. I can't find
> a reason why my 980 GTX will work on Fedora but not Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
> The major difference I spot is a kernel version difference?
>
> Currently running mint w/o my 980
>
> ZG Wolfe
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<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>To take a pure stab at this,   not only ( \
probably ) does the open driver NOT support that one in older kernels ( binary blobs \
etc etc ).    I wonder if something internal in the Kernel is needed also ( \
dependency )   for the Nvidia driver should you go that \
route.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div \
class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 10:11 AM, Zach W. <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:zwolfe21@hotmail.com" \
target="_blank">zwolfe21@hotmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc \
solid;padding-left:1ex">I&#39;ve tried exploring this on forums and such without \
answer. I can&#39;t find a reason why my 980 GTX will work on Fedora but not Ubuntu \
or Linux Mint. The major difference I spot is a kernel version difference?<br> <br>
Currently running mint w/o my 980<br>
<br>
ZG Wolfe<br>
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