The Latest NVIDIA Linux Driver Release.

cwizardone · 03-28-2018, 07:02 PM

Nvidia has released a new "Long Lived Branch" driver, version 390. 48.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/drive...x/132530/en-us

Release highlights:

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Added support for the following GPUs:
Quadro GV100
Updated the driver to prevent G-SYNC from being enabled when a Quadro Sync board is installed. G-SYNC and Quadro Sync were always mutually incompatible features, and this change makes it easier to use G-SYNC capable monitors on Quadro Sync configurations, as it is now no longer necessary to manually disable G-SYNC.
Further improved the fix for occasional flicker when using the X driver's composition pipeline. This was mostly fixed in 390.42, but now the fix should be more complete.
Improved compatibility with recent Linux kernels.
Fixed a string concatenation bug that caused libGL to accidentally try to create the directory "$HOME.nv" rather than "$HOME/.nv" in some cases where /tmp isn't accessible.
Increased the version numbers of the GLVND libGL, libGLESv1_CM, libGLESv2, and libEGL libraries, to prevent concurrently installed non-GLVND libraries from taking precedence in the dynamic linker cache.
Fixed a bug which could cause X servers that export a Video Driver ABI earlier than 0.8 to crash when running X11 applications which call XRenderAddTraps().

cwizardone · 03-29-2018, 12:17 AM

FWIW, the new Nvidia "long lived branch" driver and the latest 4.15.14 DUSK kernel have been running just fine for the last 5 hours or so.

Edit in: It has been 12 hours now and things are better than ever, not a single problem.

kingbeowulf · 03-31-2018, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

Nvidia has released a new "Long Lived Branch" driver, version 390. 48.

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/drive...x/132530/en-us

oh good grief...I just posted 390.42 on Slackbuilds.org, recently pushed to public.

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Increased the version numbers of the GLVND libGL, libGLESv1_CM, libGLESv2, and libEGL libraries, to prevent concurrently installed non-GLVND libraries from taking precedence in the dynamic linker cache.

I had a libGL symlink bug because Nvidia didn't mention the driver version updates! Sigh.

cwizardone · 04-08-2018, 08:52 PM

As it concerns the Nvidia driver I thought it would be a better fit in this thread.

So, the Nvidia "long lived branch" driver version 390.48 will not build with the 4.16.1 kernel.

The error message was this is frequently the result of using the wrong gcc version or a improperly configured kernel.

I'll try again when the 4.16.2 kernel is released or, perhaps, Nvidia will update their driver.

ponce · 04-09-2018, 12:34 AM

I haven't tried yet (I'll do it very soon) but a patch seems to be available to use the latest drivers on kernels >= 4.16.x

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/t...43252/#5243252

cwizardone · 04-10-2018, 11:22 AM

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Originally Posted by ponce

I haven't tried yet (I'll do it very soon) but a patch seems to be available to use the latest drivers on kernels >= 4.16.x

https://devtalk.nvidia.com/default/t...43252/#5243252

From reading through the posts at the above link it looks like the problem is with the Nvidia driver and we will have to wait for them to fix it.

ponce · 04-10-2018, 11:45 AM

FYI, I'm using that patch with kernel 4.16.1 on two of my boxes with nvidia hardware since yesterday with no issues yet.

1337_powerslacker · 04-10-2018, 12:31 PM

NVIDIA released a beta version of their drivers, and I'm using it with 4.16.1. No issues (yet!) Check it out if you don't mind using beta drivers.

cwizardone · 04-10-2018, 01:30 PM

As reported by 1337_powerslacker, the new Nvidia BETA 396.18 driver is available. I've just installed it with the DUSK 4.16.1 kernel and all is well..... so far....

edit in: Some time ago Nvidia announced the 390 series would be the last to support both 64-bit and 32-bit systems. I've checked and the 396.18 driver is not available in a 32-bit package, but the 64-bit version does continue to ask during the installation if you would like to install 32-bit compatibility libraries.

cwizardone · 04-10-2018, 11:13 PM

BTW, has anyone else noticed there is no longer a "User Agreement" presented when you start the driver installation?

1337_powerslacker · 04-11-2018, 12:35 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

BTW, has anyone else noticed there is no longer a "User Agreement" presented when you start the driver installation?

It's been that way since 390.42. I don't know what to make of it, either. Less keystrokes, most certainly. Or perhaps NVIDIA no longer considers agreeing to the UA essential to the installation of the driver.

chrisretusn · 04-11-2018, 11:28 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

BTW, has anyone else noticed there is no longer a "User Agreement" presented when you start the driver installation?

Yes, noticed that also.

cwizardone · 04-11-2018, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by 1337_powerslacker

It's been that way since 390.42....

Yes, that sounds about right.
Thanks to you and chrisretusn for taking the time to reply.

1337_powerslacker · 04-11-2018, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

Yes, that sounds about right.
Thanks to you and chrisretusn for taking the time to reply.

You're welcome. Always glad to be able to help. Cheers!

kjhambrick · 04-11-2018, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

BTW, has anyone else noticed there is no longer a "User Agreement" presented when you start the driver installation?

Yes, it worried me that I had missed something and had borked my first 390.42 NVidia Blob Installation Session, so I ran it again to verify.

Then again, it concerned me even more on an earlier release when the Splash Screen didn't appear on the Desktop when I ran startx ...

That one had me looking at [K]->[Settings]->[NVIDIA X Server Settings] to make sure that I had 'done it correctly' and that I had the proper Kernel modules installed

-- kjh