NVIDIA have released the first beta of the 590.xx stream of drivers – 590.44.01 – and this now drops support for almost all GTX drivers, as can be seen from the ‘Supported Products’ list in the release notes here:  https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/258750/   The still-under-development Nova driver will apparently only support ‘Turing’ and later cards, so older cards will in future have to use the old Nouveau drivers, or patched versions of the latest 580.XX drivers, which currently are OK with the 6.18 kernel……    The 590.44.01 driver does fix the ‘blank screen with DVI/HDMI’ problem, and does compile/run OK with Kernel 6.18.0..

Robert Gadsdon.   December 3rd 2025.