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Pascal (GTX 1070) on Arch after NVIDIA 590... what’s the sane long-term path? (lemmy.world)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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So Arch just moved to NVIDIA 590 and dropped Pascal support. I’m running an older Predator laptop with a GTX 1070 (Pascal) + Intel iGPU. After the update, NVIDIA is basically gone, but Intel fallback still gives me a working desktop.

This machine was always a fallback gaming laptop, not my primary system, but I’d still like to make reasonable use of it.

My current situation: Arch Linux with KDE Plasma, Intel graphics works fine, NVIDIA 1070 is unusable unless I go legacy, Wayland currently working only because I’m on Intel.

From what I understand: NVIDIA legacy (580xx) = X11 only, Wayland + Pascal is basically dead.

Arch will keep moving kernels, so legacy drivers mean ongoing maintenance...

(picture related).

What I’m trying to decide:

Stick with Arch, install legacy NVIDIA, switch to X11, accept maintenance?

Ditch NVIDIA entirely, run Intel + Wayland, and treat the 1070 as dead weight?

Switch to a slower-moving distro (Debian?) just to keep X11 + NVIDIA working longer?

Or is there a better hybrid setup people are actually happy with?

I’m not looking to resurrect Pascal forever, just trying to choose the least stupid path for a secondary machine without fighting my system every update.

Curious what others with GTX 10xx laptops are actually doing in practice.

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[–] 5 points 8 months ago* (2 children)

Oh thanks for the heads up. First time I hear about NVIDIA dropping Linux support for older cards. I would have liked to say that they lost me as a customer for this, but it doesn't look like NVIDIA cares about selling to consumers these days anyway (also due to the lack of an open source driver I had already made up my mind not to get another NVIDIA card long before this).

Guess it's gonna be an AMD or Intel card next time. Any recommendations for a card that fits into a small ITX build?

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago*

    AMD cards have support directly in the Kernel, its usually plug and play. You just have to be careful about brand new cards (ie: released very recently) to ensure your distribution of choice has a new enough kernel and mesa.

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