I was wondering if there was a particular reason why only the current feature version of the nvidia driver is in the repo. I built a machine in December, after the release of the horrendously buggy 545 driver, and since it is the only driver in the repo I’m kind of stuck. I’ve tried uninstalling and manually installing the 535 driver “the hard way” but that’s resulted in a mess of versioning issues with libraries like libvulkan. It would be nice to be able to at least pick or downgrade to the previous driver version in situations where there is a bad release.
@Fnor All good here with Nvidia 545 drivers from the get go…
nvidia-smi
Sun Jan 7 17:10:27 2024
+---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 545.29.06 Driver Version: 545.29.06 CUDA Version: 12.3 |
|-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+======================+======================|
| 0 Tesla P4 On | 00000000:03:00.0 Off | 0 |
| N/A 43C P8 7W / 75W | 46MiB / 7680MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| 1 NVIDIA T400 On | 00000000:04:00.0 On | N/A |
| 38% 41C P5 N/A / 31W | 901MiB / 2048MiB | 3% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
With 6.6.9-1-default
I install mine via the hardway, but if you have the Nvidia repo enabled, then just install the G05 drivers.
Glad that’s working for you. It isn’t working for me; I’m getting perfect performance in Diablo IV and other games on my 3060M laptop on 535, orders of magnitude better than my 4070 on a desktop with 545. Downgrading to 470 is really not a great option considering the huge number of features that are cut from the 40xx series going that far back on the driver tree.
@Fnor Might want to peruse the Nvidia forums then, hopefully might pick up further info there on your GPU.
What desktop environment are you running and X11 or Wayland?
As a delayed update, I ended up wiping out the 545 drivers and installing the 535 drivers “the hard way.” Every single issue I’ve had was resolved. So I can say with confidence these were driver issues.
I also noticed that the 535 driver is the stable driver and the 545 is the feature release. In that case, filing bug reports to nvidia might be useful in the long term, but they clearly don’t expect 545 to be stable as of right now. It seems really strange to not at least have an zypp-based install pathway for the stable driver as well as the new feature branch release.