I have been struggling to get the Quadro card working in Ubuntu 24.04 and I fear that I am going to have to purchase a new card in order to utilize newer versions of Ubuntu and stay secure with patches. This is pigeon holing me to purchase new hardware which I think is unfair as I am just leveraging the card for home use and I am not a corporation I would love to see support for this driver in newer releases of Ubuntu as it is my main operating system and I am not looking to purchase new hardware. I do not want to be forced to stay on a specific kernel in order to use the card that I own as it could come with it’s own batch of vulnerabilities. Please add support for this card in newer driver releases so I can leverage it in a normal capacity
Sorry to say this, but NVIDIA will not start supporting a 15 year old GPU.
In my opinion, your best option if you don’t want to buy a new GPU, is that you continue with Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, if it works. It’s still supported for some years with security updates, which gives you time to figure out what you want to do with your hardware.
Alternatively, Fedora / RPM Fusion still have the NVIDIA 390xx driver in their repo, though as RPM Fusion’s documentation says, this can stop working any time, with a kernel update, as this driver is not officially maintained since 2022.
But keep in mind that you’re still vulnerable to any GPU driver related security issues that weren’t fixed since 2022 - and the same goes for any other no-longer-maintained hardware driver in what I am guessing is a pretty old system. So if security is a primary concern, definitely consider the whole thing.
Well for the application that I am running the card I have is exactly what I need. I do not need additional functionality or the latest and greatest tech to support my needs. At the very least just allow it to work if you don’t want to support patches the card should still have basic functionality after it is a purchase that has been made. Why break its ability to run with newer operating systems? As far as vulnerable on the older hardware again its sole purpose is to run an application and I constantly update the os so I am not susceptible to exploitation and it is Linux so not as easy to break in like a windows system is. It is just frustrating that support is no longer available. I just bought the card two years ago and didn’t want to use a guy as it pokes out of the side of the machine that I own. To nvidia it’s twelve years old to me it’s a recent purchase. Just my two cents. My current system shouldn’t really be a concern to be honest and that is not a very diverse comment some people only need basic things are are not trying to break the bank on the latest cutting edge tech. I’m fine with 22.04 for the time being and the ability to patch my OS but please try to think about the little guys out here that just want to buy something and be able to use it on older hardware. That was the whole basis of Linux in the first place you don’t need to have a smoking system to run it