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dalu

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Registered: 2014-04-16

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Why are Nvidia & Nvidia Open drivers being pinned to an older version?

Nvidia and Nvidia Open drivers for Linux have a 575 branch, which mostly fixes black screen issues with 50 series cards, but also other issues.
I have so far flagged the version 570 used currently 2 times since 575 release, but I see that others are also flagging the drivers for being outdated.
Why is/are the maintainer/s so reluctant to use the 575 version, which fixes issues and also improves performance?
Why would he/they not upgrade to the latest branch?

I feel like there is no way to communicate publicly and a forum post, should it already exist mea culpa, would be a good way for all parties to discuss.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 65,440

Re: Why are Nvidia & Nvidia Open drivers being pinned to an older version?

https://www.nvidia.com/en-gb/drivers/unix/

Latest Production Branch Version: 570.153.02
Latest New Feature Branch Version: 565.77
Latest Beta Version: 575.51.02

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-beta-dkms

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Why are Nvidia & Nvidia Open drivers being pinned to an older version?

I hope that's not the reason. That page often lags behind, and has how been changed since you posted, seth.

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 65,440

Re: Why are Nvidia & Nvidia Open drivers being pinned to an older version?

It still shows that information for me and when I use the "download driver" feature and select linux64 the service also suggests 570.153.02 as recommended driver for a (preselected) rtx 5090

What would be the supposed up-to-date non-beta 575xx driver?

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lahwaacz

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Registered: 2012-05-29

Posts: 771

Re: Why are Nvidia & Nvidia Open drivers being pinned to an older version?

The 575 version being tagged as beta for the past month is the reason why it has not been updated in Arch repos.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Why are Nvidia & Nvidia Open drivers being pinned to an older version?

Latest Production Branch Version: 570.153.02
Latest New Feature Branch Version: 575.57.08
Latest Beta Version: 575.51.02

Released 3 days ago. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/245537/
And yes, we generally follow the New Feature branch.

Edit: and being that it's only been 3 days and it's been flagged for 3 days, I don't know what the OP is on about.

Last edited by Scimmia (2025-06-01 13:02:29)

tekstryder

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Registered: 2013-02-14

Posts: 336

Re: Why are Nvidia & Nvidia Open drivers being pinned to an older version?

1) Everything @Scimmia said
2) Research before asking here. tl:dr...driver no workie good with kernel 6.15, which Arch is trying to switch to. See upstream/parallel issues and proposed patches (nvidia forums, cachy, open module git, etc.) bugs abound. The Arch nVidia package maintainer is also the lead of CachyOS, and is typically dealing with most of these fallouts "behind the scenes" (but in public view).
3) It's in testing now: https://archlinux.org/packages/extra-te … dia-utils/
4) If you really, really needed it ... build it yourself. I packaged 575.57.08 the morning it was released a few days ago.

Last edited by tekstryder (2025-06-02 12:46:32)