The Latest NVIDIA Linux Driver Release.

petelq · 02-02-2024, 01:29 PM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

Edit in: It will not install (build) with the new 6.8-rc1 kernel.

If you apply jaun bruguera's latest patch (https://gist.github.com/joanbm) but only the first part - kernel/common/inc/nv.h - this nvidia compiles with k6.8-rc.

cwizardone · 02-08-2024, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

The NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-BETA-550.40.07.run driver will not build with the new 6.6.15 kernel.......

It will build with the 6.6.16 kernel, which I just built and installed.

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bash-5.2$ uname -a
Linux user.user 6.6.16 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Feb 8 2024 x86_64

garpu · 02-08-2024, 09:49 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

It will build with the 6.6.16 kernel, which I just built and installed.

No patch needed?

cwizardone · 02-08-2024, 09:51 AM

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Originally Posted by garpu

No patch needed?

No patch needed.

garpu · 02-08-2024, 10:21 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

No patch needed.

Nice. Here's hoping they fix the 32-bit OpenGL issue as quickly...(I know, that's an nvidia bug, and I'm not holding my breath.)

mlangdn · 02-08-2024, 06:32 PM

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-BETA-550.40.07.run built just fine for me with 6.6.16.

elcore · 02-24-2024, 01:52 AM

Apparently, some fixes were backported to 5.15.149, and this new LTS kernel now requires a new legacy driver 470.239.06.

The 470.239.06's not yet available on download.nvidia.com atm, this morning it just wasn't there when I checked.
However, since I had to test no-compat32.run version, and the driver shipped on www.nvidia.com website is only a full version with-compat32 which I don't need,
I had to go to us.download.nvidia.com where the directory index doesn't seem available at all, but to get around that I wrote a direct download link which works fine:

Code:

https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/470.239.06/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.239.06-no-compat32.run
https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/470.239.06/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-470.239.06-no-compat32.run.sha256sum
sha256sum > 4a4b2f1a0e5f4403dcc94b5df9970cb064fccee44e82282e6f03dbde6e4dfff0

Test results/TLDR:
The 470.239.06 driver from us.download.nvidia.com builds fine on 5.15.149, works fine, no patch needed.
The 470.223.02 driver is now obsolete/does not compile on LTS kernel above 5.15.148.
Nouveau driver's fine, no trouble at all with that one so far.

cwizardone · 02-24-2024, 11:03 AM

Nvidia's "Production Branch" Driver, Version: 550.54.14, has been released.
The "release highlights," a list of supported products and a download link can be found at, https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driv.../218826/en-us/

Nvidia's Latest Legacy GPU (470.xx series) driver, version: 470.239.06, has been released and can be found at, https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driv.../218852/en-us/

Installation instructions can be found under the heading, "Additional Information" at each of the above links. Under that same heading you can find detailed installation instructions by clicking on "README."

Edit in: A news story on all the improvements to the "production branch" driver, https://9to5linux.com/nvidia-550-54-...y-improvements

cwizardone · 03-10-2024, 06:39 PM

FWIW: The Production Branch Driver, Version: 550.54.14, will build with the new 6.8.0 stable kernel.

bathory · 03-11-2024, 01:54 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

FWIW: The Production Branch Driver, Version: 550.54.14, will build with the new 6.8.0 stable kernel.

Also the legacy Nvidia-470.239.06 drivers are working fine with the new 6.8.0 kernel.

cwizardone · 03-19-2024, 02:13 PM

Nvidia's "Production Branch" Driver, Version: 550.67, has been released.
The "release highlights," a list of supported products and a download link can be found at, https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driv.../223426/en-us/

Installation instructions can be found under the heading, "Additional Information" at the above link. Under that same heading you can find detailed installation instructions by clicking on "README."

Paulo2 · 03-20-2024, 09:24 AM

Still no luck with the new 550.67 driver. The black screen when switching back from a console to an X session remains.
I tested with those NVidia kernel options they mention in the driver ChangeLog, "nvidia-drm.modeset=1" and "nvidia-drm.fbdev=1": without any, both and one at a time.

But I don't remember if I tested those options before with the 535.154.05 driver, and turns out that with both,
the machine now recovers from suspend (to RAM). That's nice.
So now I have a clear future ahead

my deadline is when the kernel won't compile this driver anymore.

jkh2cpu · 03-20-2024, 09:44 AM

Are you booting with elilo or grub? Grub works here, but elilo results in the problem that you are reporting.

It's easy to install grub: as root do this -- grub-install and grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

Paulo2 · 03-20-2024, 12:27 PM

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Originally Posted by jkh2cpu

Are you booting with elilo or grub? Grub works here, but elilo results in the problem that you are reporting.

It's easy to install grub: as root do this -- grub-install and grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg.

That's for me?

I use Lilo, so probably it has the same problems as elilo.
I never tried grub, but it will be in the way soon in -current I guess.

I think it is strange that a boot loader can interfere that way.
Maybe because I boot in legacy mode.

garpu · 03-20-2024, 03:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Paulo2

Still no luck with the new 550.67 driver. The black screen when switching back from a console to an X session remains.
I tested with those NVidia kernel options they mention in the driver ChangeLog, "nvidia-drm.modeset=1" and "nvidia-drm.fbdev=1": without any, both and one at a time.

Those are module options, not kernel ones. (I made the same mistake.) In /etc/modprobe.d, you need a file called nvidia_drm.conf with "options nvidia_drm modeset=1 fbdev=1" in it.