nvidia-drivers-340.96-r5 should be stabilized for amd64, it is the only version in the 340 series (required for older NVIDIA hardware) that works with xorg-server 1.18, which is now stable. The currently stable (amd64) is nvidia-drivers-340.96, which cannot be used with xorg-server 1.18: <x11-base/xorg-server-1.17.99 This causes blocks, I had to manually add nvidia-drivers-340.96-r5 to package keywords to resolve this.
Can you tell me why you would need 340.xxx in particular? 370.28 is out, upstream regards it as stable, and it supports the 400 series and newer, and kernel 4.7.x as well as Xorg 1.18.x.
From NVidia website: http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142 The Linux 340.* legacy driver series is the last to support the G8x, G9x, and GT2xx GPUs, and motherboard chipsets based on them. So anyone having those GPUs has to stay with version 340.
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That document was published back in 2012 and was probably true back then. Supported products listed for the 370 driver shows cards as old as GeForce 400 series.
(In reply to Morgan Wesström from comment #4) > That document was published back in 2012 and was probably true back then. > Supported products listed for the 370 driver shows cards as old as GeForce > 400 series. So what's the point? 340.* is the last driver series that supports cards before GeForce 400. This includes 9000, 100, 200, 300 series. They are almost all made using the same GPU cores. So the document was true back then and true now.
It seems I misread the list of gpus. I apologize for the noise.
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