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[Liam Proven <2035189@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

@xnox:

> I thought 390 is so obsolete, that everyone has migrated to newer ones
if their card supports it.

Sadly I can't. I have 2 Thinkpads with this GPU (Core i7 T420, Core i7
W520) and it is built in -- it can't be replaced.

If upstream has dropped it then there is little that can be done but a
warning when I upgraded to Mantic would have been good! I got nothing, I
just lost PRIME offload.

Secondly, I feel it would be the Ubuntu spirit to automatically _remove_
the no-longer-supported driver and configure Nouveau instead. So far I
have spent hours on this and cannot get it working. It is very
frustrating indeed.

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Title:
  RM: EOL mantic nvidia-graphics-drivers - Remove from the archive,
  unmaintained upstream drivers

Status in bumblebee package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-418-server package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-435 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-440-server package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-450 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-450-server package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-455 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-460 package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  This legacy driver had the last update on 2022.11.22, and is EOL
  upstream. We should remove it from the archive before the next LTS,
  maybe even before Mantic is released.

  We're planning on migrating the kernel from fbdev drivers to using
  simpledrm, but this old driver doesn't support the fbdev emulation
  layer, meaning that VT's would remain blank when the driver is used.

  Similarly 418-server and 450-server are also EOL and unsupported.

  Also we shomehow have remains of 440-server published in the archive,
  with many superseeded (hostile takeover) of binary packages by
  450-server.

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