Is manual intervention needed now that NVIDIA driver no longer supports Pascal (GTX 10xx) GPUs or older

[A_Metal_Penguin]

I was watching a video that showed the following article:

[arch-announce] NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal support; main packages switch...

The article says something that confused me:

Impact: Updating the NVIDIA packages on systems with Pascal, Maxwell, or older cards will fail to load the driver, which may result in a broken graphical environment.

Intervention required for Pascal/older users: Users with GTX 10xx series and older cards must switch to the legacy proprietary branch to maintain support

I use a GTX 1070 TI and I use the propriety drivers (I think that means I use “Vulcan” and not paskal? I’m not sure.)

Anyway, the official installation video for Garuda Linux recommended to always use proprietary drivers unless I had a specific objection (which I didn’t). I always update my computer using Garuda Rani. Is whatever issue that is being brought up in the above article going to be handled by Rani or is manual intervention required?

[nepti]

@A_Metal_Penguin

I use a GTX 1070 TI and I use the propriety drivers (I think that means I use “Vulcan” and not paskal? I’m not sure.)

Your GTX 1070 Ti is Pascal architecture, and the required proprietary 580 drivers have been dropped into the AUR.

@A_Metal_Penguin

I always update my computer using Garuda Rani. Is whatever issue that is being brought up in the above article going to be handled by Rani or is manual intervention required?

Take a look here:

Nvidia-open-dkms and garuda-hardware-profile-nvidia-closed are in conflict

A fix and the needed automations for it to apply has been published: To update using this fix, simply run: garuda-update as normal. Make sure to pay attention to any update notices as well as the garuda-health output. It may be necessary to switch to a different NVIDIA driver based on the garuda-health recommendation, depending on your GPU. If you get an all clear, there should be nothing to worry about.

[A_Metal_Penguin]

Okay, thank you!

Would it be impossible to find out if this news is going to have a negative impact on my GPU’s performance? Do I just have to have a “feel” for it?

[TNE]

Your GPU will just be stuck on a previous driver version. It won’t get slower, it’ll just… stay the same.

[A_Metal_Penguin]

Thank you!