On 05/02 11:53, Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > I mentioned in another thread that I was going to upgrade to a much > newer kernel. I also have to make sure Nvidia supports that kernel. > So, I went to the Nvidia site and did a search by model number. This is > the output of lspci: > > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX > 650] (rev a1) > > > So, I did the manual thing, since this is Linux not windoze, and > selected the series and model. According to the list it provided, I > should be using the drivers in the 440 slot. I'm currently using the > 390 slot since when I installed that card, that is what it showed. I'm > almost 100% certain I checked this when installing this card. My > question is, is it normal for nvidia to change the series of drivers for > cards like this? Am I reading this wrong? Link to Nvidia site. > > https://www.geforce.com/drivers > > I couldn't provide a link to the selected part since it doesn't seem to > provide one, java stuff I guess. Next link I went too. > > https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/results/159360/ > > According to that the 440 series supports the 5.6 series of kernel. It > doesn't indicate a specific version tho. Does that mean I can go to the > very latest version or do I need to look elsewhere to see what is > supported? If it matters, I use gentoo-sources. Currently on 4.19.40 > and I'm showing gentoo-sources-5.6.7 as the latest available in the > tree. Since I don't upgrade kernels much, may as well take a large > leap. ;-) > > Thanks much. A little confused. > > Dale > > :-) :-) > > P. S. Got my garden about half disced. Dry side about ready to plant and > wet side is lightly disced to help it dry out. :-D >
Hi Dale, hopefully I understood your question correctlu... I am running currently the nividia 440.82 (not that one which portage...more in a second) with Linux kernel 5.6.8 and a RTX 2060 SUPER jsut fine. I few minutes before I had compiled kernel 5.6.9 but hadn't rebooted my Linux yet. I am using Blender, which starts to support Optix based rendering, which is faster than "normal" GPU rendering. Unfortunatelu "something" is broken, when using the portage version of the driver. So I removed that driver and installed the same version as offered by nvidia directlu and that worked. This problem effects only Blender...as far as I know. And: I haven't tried nvidia-440.82-r3 which is quite new. Will try that when booting the new kernel and report later. HTH! Cheers! Meino
