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, I am now running kernel 5.6.9 (vanilla) and nvidia-driver 440.82-r3. Again, Blender cannot find the Optix related parts of the driver. This package still does not work for me. As far as I can see, the non-Optix specific things are fine, though. So I will reboot, remove the portage package of the driver and install the original by nvidia and this will fix the issue with Optix... Cheers! Meino
