[setup] Support older NVIDIA drivers

[LukeShortCloud]

The latest drivers only support the latest graphics card. We want to support old and new NVIDIA cards.

[LukeShortCloud]

Here is an official list of what graphics cards are supported by legacy NVIDIA drivers: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/

[LukeShortCloud]

The Arch Linux Wiki provides some hints about minimum driver requirements for different generations of graphics cards:

• Turing = nvidia-dkms OR nvidia-open-dkms
• Kepler = nvidia-470xx-dkms
• Fermi = nvidia-390xx-dkms

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation

These can be oversimplified (and not entirely accurate) to be:

• Turing = RTX 2000
• Kelper = GTX 600-800
• Fermi = GTX 400-600

https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html

[LukeShortCloud]

These may require older Linux kernels.

[LukeShortCloud]

I looked at the Fermi package and it includes patches to even work for the Linux 5.18 kernel which is great. That means that newer kernels should be well supported.

[LukeShortCloud]

Here are the reported old NVIDIA cards that our users are trying to use but are not currently supported:

• NVIDIA GTX 860M
  • This is actually an original Steam Machine.
• NVIDIA GTX 765M
• NVIDIA GTX 680

We will support Kepler (GTX 600 series) and newer cards.

[LukeShortCloud]

In the first-time setup, we should present these options:

• AMD
• Intel
• NVIDIA Maxwell and newer (GTX 750, 900, and newer series)
  • This will install the nvidia-dkms driver.
• NVIDIA Kepler (GTX 600, 700, and 800 series)
  • This will install the nvidia-470xx-dkms driver.
  • This includes the 800M series (not the desktop series, it skipped 800): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_800M_series

[LukeShortCloud]

The original Steam Machine prototype had a NVIDIA GTX 780 (Kepler) graphics card.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMUFSt7irnI