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[WIP] [BETA] nvidia: switch to open kernel modules, update to 590.44.01

Open fvalasiad opened this issue 4 months ago • 0 comments

WARNING: EXPERIMENTAL, EXPECT BREAKAGES

DO NOT INSTALL UNLESS YOU KNOW HOW TO REVERT TO A WORKING PACKAGE.

This is a proposal to switch the nvidia package to the open kernel modules, starting post 580 version, given that 580 is the last driver version to support pre-turing cards.

The original template can be forked to a package called nvidia580, and keep using the proprietary kernel module to support pre-turing cards.

Testers welcome.

Additionally, worth mentioning that this template uses nvidia's precompiled open kernel module, we could alternatively build it ourselves, @abenson please give your take.

Have fun!

fvalasiad avatar Aug 08 '25 15:08 fvalasiad