Hi Bennett, On Monday 6 December 2021 16:40:28 CET Bennett Piater via arch-general wrote:
On 2021-12-06 13:09, Iyán Méndez Veiga via arch-general wrote:
I've always done early loading, but still 495.44 is broken right now for me. At least with KDE Plasma.
Hi, as far as I remember, 495 dropped support for a few generations of GPUs.
I have a GTX 1070 which is (in theory) fully supported by nvidia, and I don't expect them to drop the support for a few more years. I mean, even the GeForce 700 Series are still supported (~8 years old) in the latest 495.44.
So if you're using relatively old hardware, you might be stuck downgrading to 475(?) or whatever the previous version was. And a compatible LTS kernel, but if you're on nvidia that's probably already what you're doing?
I'm using the latest kernel but the driver 470.86 from AUR (which is btw, the current production branch version).
Otherwise, you may want to switch to the open-source driver, as long as you don't need AAA gaming, CUDA or vulkan.
I do need CUDA. And also AAA gaming with 495 on Linux is a no go right now as well. I have two friends with a RTX 2060 and a RTX 3080 (yeah, they do exist apparently), and they cannot run Steam on the latest driver either. So, as I said, I think 495.44 is buggy, and 470.86 is fully compatible with linux 5.15.x. So anyone with issues should simply use the 470.xx packages from AUR until nvidia releases a new version. Cheers, Iyán -- Iyán Méndez Veiga GPG 0x422E3694311E5AC1