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Pop!_OS Legacy NVIDIA Graphics Drivers (470)
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Package nvidia-driver-390 #22

Open PanderMusubi opened 7 months ago

PanderMusubi commented 7 months ago

I have noticed that the package nvidia-driver-390 is supported by Ubuntu Jammy 22.04 LTS, Lunar 23.04, but not in Mantic 23.10 and Noble 24.04 LTS.

Will the package nvidia-driver-390 be available in the next release of Pop!_OS?

jackpot51 commented 7 months ago

We package 470 because it is the last version that supports the 700 series and earlier GPUs. Is there a set of GPUs that are not supported by 470?

PanderMusubi commented 7 months ago

Yes, specifically GeForce GTX 560 Ti for me. Besides my System76 laptop, I run Pop!_OS successfully on all my desktops of other brands, some with older hardware.

When the 390 driver package is shipped in Pop!_OS, it will work out of the box with 519 GPUs, mainly of type Geforce. Installing the NVIDIA driver manually is not straight forward and will create some package dependency issues.

Supporting this will draw in Ubuntu users to Pop!_OS that cannot upgrade otherwise and it will also reduce e-waste as users don't have to get newer GPUs, which in turn can also require heavier power units in desktops.

PanderMusubi commented 6 months ago

@jackpot51 did you and others had a change to discuss this? To me, it seems like a good opportunity to get more users.

PanderMusubi commented 6 months ago

See also:

sohamthakurdesai commented 4 months ago

@PanderMusubi thanks for raising this issue. I came across this discussion while setting up my old laptop for gaming. I have 12-13 year old Dell XPS L501X. It has got Nvidia GeForce 420m GPU. Installing nvidia-driver-390 on it while using Pop!OS has been quite cumbersome. As you mentioned I am facing many package dependencies and DKMS issues. So far I am not able to achieve the goal.

I am opting for Pop!OS because its Nvidia hardware support is good and also because it is maintained by System76. I would definitely appreciate if out-of-the-box support is provided for nvidia-driver-390.

Looking forward to your team's reply on it! @jackpot51 :)

@PanderMusubi have you got any work around?

wildrun0 commented 1 month ago

Still no 390 driver...

Oredukri commented 6 days ago

Same issue here, luckily the integrated one will keep me from scrapping the ol laptop. @jackpot51 The geforce series 400-635M are not covered by 470.

PanderMusubi commented 2 days ago

I the spirit of https://netflix.com/title/81554996 keeping support for older GPUs is reducing a lot of e-waste.

Anybody using https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html ?