NVIDIA 560.35.03 Linux Driver Released

It moved from beta to new feature branch, so we shouldn’t we expecting it to hit the repos yet, right?

Yes, it usually takes a little time to package and test before it hits the repos.

As far as I know, openSUSE only gets the Production Branch, which is still version 550.

Stable NVIDIA proprietary driver 555.58 just released - English / Hardware - openSUSE Forums

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Updated today, still 550. But added a new Nvidia repo key created in 2022. What’s the update date for TW?

The maintainer has said that he can’t say yet.

There’s a discussion here: Tumbleweed: Nvidia (proprietary) driver 560 when? Any ETA? - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

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I only updated to try the new open driver and Wayland. So, Wayland still unusable and I spent 3GB of network traffic and 9GB of SSD TBW.

I was only providing a reference for information about why you won’t receive a date for the update being available.

Didn’t mean any offense, just explained that I don’t see this quarter updates important except of Wayland.

No offense taken - just was a different topic from what I was commenting on, that’s all. :slight_smile:

Is there any update about the date? Can’t find.

There hasn’t been an update that I’ve seen, and no change in why a date isn’t available from the maintainer that I’ve seen either.

Well for those who can’t wait for the release, maybe use the .run driver.
It works here.

Just need to get the release date :slight_smile: . Maybe it’s already 570 in work.

The best anyone is going to be able to give here is “when it’s ready, and not before then.” :slight_smile:

Unless they’re the actual maintainer, and even then - they may not have a precise answer because they may not have worked out all the issues/dependencies/other requirements.

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It’s sad to have only 1 maintainer for crucial software.

It’s a volunteer effort - I’m sure the maintainer would love for someone else to volunteer to help out.

To make a long message short: There is a volunteer waiting for permission to publish them. But they’re only useful for testing purposes anyway.

The reason that the packaged pre-release drivers aren’t already published is not due to a lack of volunteers but because, in spite of rumour to the contrary, they’re broken. Links, so that I don’t need to argue that point:

You’ve got a few hours to read through the list of bugs, right?

Experience has shown that publishing such broken pre-release drivers as packages leads to problems for users and extra load on packagers - yes, shocking I know, but there is actually a good reason why things are the way they are :smiley:

When nvidia has them fixed up enough that they could be considered working (or probably, before that) they will release the driver, and opensuse will have it. Until then, would-be guinea pigs and canaries can install the drivers by other means (eg ‘the hard way’).

We’re just waiting on nvidia for that release. The only thing we can do, is be patient.

So, it’s Nvidia shipped a bugged half-baked piece of code then? Linus don’t like them.

It is not that hard to read up on the differences between the stable branch (v550), new feature branch (v560) and the beta branch (v565). Beta and new feature branch contains unstable features and bugs by nature. So blaming Nvidia that their beta and new feature branch have some issues is kind of strange. The users which use these drivers and don’t know how to deal with it are the ones to blame instead. And quoting Linus from over a decade ago, shows that you missed over a decade of development…

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Well, those issues are true, but the person who maintains the package for openSUSE said that “manpower” is one reason why the production branch is the only branch he packages.

Start at Re: Tumbleweed: Nvidia (proprietary) driver 560 when? Any ETA? - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists (you’ll need to go back to the thread to read the rest) for the packager’s comments on how more manpower would be helpful.