BETA nvidia driver 555

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So the new beta driver has been released. Any way to install it easily? Will it come to the repo in the wiki?

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https://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_the_hard_way

When it is available for openSUSE there might be an adjustment of the wiki. But in general the stable version is provided.

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@goddard I’m running it here with the open driver…

I boot to multi-user.target and run NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-555.42.02.run --no-systemd --ui=none -m=kernel-open -aq

Ref: https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/555.42.02/README/kernel_open.html

modinfo nvidia | grep -E "filename|license"

filename:       /usr/lib/modules/6.9.1-1-default/kernel/drivers/video/nvidia.ko
license:        Dual MIT/GPL

nvidia-smi -q | grep "Version"

Driver Version                            : 555.42.02
CUDA Version                              : 12.5
    VBIOS Version                         : 90.17.76.00.0B
    Inforom Version
        Image Version                     : G172.0520.00.02
    GSP Firmware Version                  : 555.42.02
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I built one today. It works for me, but its my first built, so I don’t know if I did everything right.

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@boribori Just to be aware, your build is not permitted on the openSUSE Build Service Reference

I would suggest checking out your package and then can build locally for your own use and deleteing on the build service before it gets reported…

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Thanks for the heads up, but can you explain why it is not permitted, please? What is different in mine from the other non free nVidia drivers on obs?

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@boribori It is not published (as the license forbids re-distribution), it’s for the openSUSE distribution and has a dispensation from Nvidia who publish the packages from this development repo.

Now, you can probably build the open kmp without issue, but only the kmp I suspect not some of the other packages eg cuda. But there are a few here https://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/