Open TS-CUBED opened 2 years ago
BTW: Aside from this little problem, which makes Pop-OS difficult to use on slightly older/"professional" Nvidia cards, Pop-OS is an awesome distribution. But I hesitate to recommend it to fellow researchers and students because of this.
Thank you for trying the beta. As you noted, the most current NVIDIA driver is what's currently tested and generally supported. There is a feature request issue open here for a way to select previous versions, but it would require some changes to the way NVIDIA drivers are packaged and released: https://github.com/pop-os/nvidia-graphics-drivers/issues/112
It looks like nvidia-detect
that you referenced is a script in Debian. The package names that it recommends using are not valid package names in Ubuntu or Pop!_OS. So that script would have to be forked and maintained according to the NVIDIA driver packages we have available. (I think we'd want some kind of autodetection or at least a GUI mechanism as an option instead of making users run a script that returns a package name. For a script, installing the appropriate driver and making sure none others are installed might be more useful than just printing the package name.)
How did you upgrade to 21.10? (Fresh install / Upgrade)
Both upgrade and fresh install (two machines with nearly identical hw: HP Z-Book-15 G1, HP Z-Book-17 G1
Related Application and/or Package Version (run
apt policy $PACKAGE NAME
):nvidia driver
version: nvidia-driver-418-server
Issue/Bug Description: Not necessarily a 21.10 specific problem:
Pop-OS does update the Nvidia driver to versions which do not support older cards. In my case, drivers > 418 seem to work. However, they show sporadic faults, and are not officially supported by Nvidia for older cards.
Need to downgrade to driver version 418. For some reason installing
nvidia-driver-418
will automatically upgrade to the newest available driver (nvidia-driver-390
does not seem to do that).sudo apt install nvidia-driver-418-server
does work nicely.All Nvidia drivers do not allow suspend resume, and I need to add:
which makes suspend/resume work.
Steps to reproduce (if you know):
Install Nvidia version of Pop-OS. Work with it.
Downgrade to
nvidia-driver-418-server
Add
nouveau.modeset=0 persistent
to kernel parametersExpected behavior:
System selects correct driver and kernel parameters
Other Notes:
Would it be possible to use
nvidia-detect
on setup to automatically pin the correct driver version? Updating to the newest driver regardless of card support causes problems for a lot of colleagues here at the institute (where Quadros are common, but not always the most recent ones).