Thanks Jerry, I'll try that for "recent" nVidia video cards. I should be able to manage nVidia since when dealing with ATI cards I sometimes have to manually install an ATI "Legacy" driver which is sometimes a pain, but then, no OpenGL, etc.
The thing is I build used systems for low-income households and the video card selection is what people give us.
These vary greatly in age and brand but I try to keep it in the PCI-Express era and leave AGP in it's peacefull tomb. (i.e. We sell the untested AGP cards for 2$
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With the systems, even the latest nVidia (recommended) drivers from the driver installer are sometimes too "new" for older cards and give a black screen on reboot and have to roll-back in recovery to the other recommended drivers.
Oh, and most of the time I have to stay in Linux Lite 3.x for now on these because 4.0 was a little "young" for "grand-pa" hardware.
I'll try again when 4.4 comes out, maybe with backports, etc. (?)
I even sometime use 2.x but just for computer not even powerfull enough to get Youtube working correctly in 240p, LOL.
Thats a lot of blah blah but since I won't ever put Windows on these machines I just want to get the most out of them on Linux.
Thinking about it I broke the OS a few times when updating Kernels, so per-kernel is better then per-distro.
Having a list of supported video cards/chips per kernel would be a great help when rebuilding these old geezer-computers.
If nothing of the sort is possible I'll start building my own list I guess. I like to do Calc tables, hehe!
Cheers!