On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 01:32:04AM -0400, Ariel wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Jul 2025, Tobias Frost wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:15:14PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > > > On 6/24/25 19:46, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > > > > I plan to contact directly the sponsor to study the impact of > > > > (officially) stopping supporting nvidia-graphics-driver. But before > > > > that, it would be helpful to know if a full version backport is > > > > technically possible or not. Help with that will be very appreciated. > > > > Any volunteers? > > > > A backport of 535.247.01-1~deb12u1 to bullseye should be rather trivial. > > > Compared to 470.xx the ppc64el architecture will dropped since upstream no > > > longer provides updated ppc64el binaries (this has also been done in > > > bookworm). > > > It is not a 0-change backport due to Openssl 1.1 vs. OpenSSL 3 (the > > > neccessary changes are already in 535.183.01-1~deb12u1~bpo11+1). > > > While writing this email a bullseye test rebuild of an updated > > > bullseye-backports branch completed successfully. I can provide builds for > > > LTS (source and/or binary, all architectures), but not test them. > > > I can do test on amd64 on an old GTX 770 card (which might no longer > > support 5xx) and on a 3060ti. > > Were you able to test it? I have a GTX 750, and while I'm not able to test > the new driver, I'm hoping my card will still work once I do finally upgrade > to it.
Update: I finally found time for testing. The GTX 770 is not compatible with the 535 drivers, (as already suspected). So I guess your 750 won't work as well. -- tobi > -Ariel
