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Due to an incompatibility issue, we advise customers to defer updating to Linux Kernel 5.9+ until mid-November when an NVIDIA Linux GPU driver update with Kernel 5.9+ support is expected to be available.
Linux Kernel 5.9+ is incompatible with current and previous NVIDIA Linux GPU drivers. We advise customers to defer updating to Linux Kernel 5.9+ until mid-November when an NVIDIA Linux GPU driver update with Kernel 5.9+ support is expected to be available. NVIDIA is aware of the impact this will have on customers, and we are working diligently to provide the driver update with Kernel 5.9+ support as soon as possible.
Customers must use our upcoming driver update on Kernel 5.9+ to have a fully functioning driver.
.....NVIDIA didn't publicly spell out why it's taking them much longer than normal to deliver support for the new kernel. It may very well have to do with the change around tainting with GPL shims that circumvent GPL symbol exports used by proprietary drivers that comes with Linux 5.9 following the recent NetGPU NVIDIA "GPL condom" incident that spurred this 5.9 fundamental change.
FWIW, as I've said, the nouveau driver is working fine for everything I do with the computer. Don't need the Nvidia driver and don't miss it.
Last edited by cwizardone; 10-17-2020 at 05:00 PM.
Fixed a bug in a Vulkan blending optimization that could produce incorrect results. Some of the Vulkan titles affected by this bug were:
Life is Strange 2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Fixed an issue that caused Vulkan swapchain creation to fail for full-screen windows when a G-SYNC monitor is connected.
Edit in: While no mention is made of 5.9.y kernel support, I just installed the 455.45.01 driver using the 5.9.7 kernel and it is running "as advertised."
Last edited by cwizardone; 11-17-2020 at 10:28 AM.
Distribution: Slackware64 15.0 (started with 13.37). Testing -current in a spare partition.
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455.45.1 does work with 5.9 kernels.
Running with an old 5.9.3, vtown and rworkman Xfce 4.14.
Let's see if with all these new updates the NVidia driver doesn't crash anymore.
edit- and the new gcc 10 too, kernel was build with gcc 9.
NVidia driver complains about gcc version mismatch but builds ok.
Last edited by Paulo2; 11-18-2020 at 08:28 AM.
Reason: add gcc info
Let's see if with all these new updates the NVidia driver doesn't crash anymore.
I find that a bit odd. In 20+ years always using the proprietary driver and with at least a dozen different GPUs, I really can't recall a single crash due to Nvidia graphics. Does your run hot or something?
I always buy fan-cooled models and my cases are "airy" which I why I'm wondering about temps. Currently I'm running a GTX 1070Ti and at idle it runs cooler by a few degrees C than my 15-10600K, right now with low load, about 35C. Under heavy load it rarely exceeds 53C.
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Originally Posted by enorbet
I find that a bit odd. In 20+ years always using the proprietary driver and with at least a dozen different GPUs, I really can't recall a single crash due to Nvidia graphics. Does your run hot or something?
It isn't a matter of high temperatures. In fact, the machine from my signature,
when running NVidia driver, is very stable when playing 3D games like all Quakes,
Doom3 (I know they are old ) and more modern SuperTuxKart 1.1.
The problems with NVidia started about one year ago, the two symptoms are
1) When switching from X session to a console I got a black screen, but at least
I can go back to the X session. This happens with stock -current and with
vtown (where the X session is opened on top of the actual login console).
2) As I wrote above, NVidia driver is very stable under heavy load,
but surprisingly the X session crashes in simple tasks like browsing in Firefox,
Dolphin opened in home dir or something else. Mouse and keyboard remain totally
frozen, but the system is still running so I can log in through ssh and reboot.
Now I'm running nouveau for more than two months and all is ok, no more crashes
and I can switch to consoles and back to X without any problem.
Quake3 plays the same as with NVidia driver, but Doom3 and STK are very slow
with nouveau and, in SuperTuxKart, some tracks are like fps becoming spf
edit- I forgot one more symptom, with NVidia driver suspend to RAM always works,
but hibernate (to hard drive) fails sometimes, the image starts to being read but
aborts and the machine goes to a new boot.
Last edited by Paulo2; 11-18-2020 at 03:55 PM.
Reason: add symptom #3
Yeah, only time I really had issues with graphics crashing things and driver errors are when my video card is going. Like more stress on it (games) generally make the problems happen more, until the whole thing dies.
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2) As I wrote above, NVidia driver is very stable under heavy load,
but surprisingly the X session crashes in simple tasks like browsing in Firefox,
Dolphin opened in home dir or something else. Mouse and keyboard remain totally
frozen, but the system is still running so I can log in through ssh and reboot.
Oh hey, do you have a Ryzen cpu? They sometimes lock on idle, so when your system is under heavy load, it's fine. Soon as you stop the heavy load and things idle, it hangs. (Which is why a stress test doesn't catch it.)
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Oh hey, do you have a Ryzen cpu? They sometimes lock on idle, so when your system is under heavy load, it's fine. Soon as you stop the heavy load and things idle, it hangs. (Which is why a stress test doesn't catch it.)
No Ryzen, but it's an AMD too, Vishera FX-8320E.
The problem is that all that happens with NVidia driver, but with nouveau
the machine is really rock solid.
Head's up. 455+ series has a pretty nasty bug. I've been running into it lately, and I thought it was my video card going.
Thanks, I gave up searching for this since I couldn't find any fix related, I thought I was alone on this one.
My case is worst, the first crash was a year and a half ago, with any NVidia version.
I will try that patch in the vtown test partition (my 'production' -current install
is now rock solid with nouveau).
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