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sneed4feed

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Registered: 2022-02-16

Posts: 2  

Trouble with Nvidia drivers

The last time I updated my Nvidia drivers was probably before moving from beowulf to chimaera, today I tried updating them and the packages for it were held back.
Using --with-new-pkgs upgrade  leaves me with this:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 libcuda1-i386:i386 : Depends: libcuda1:i386 (= 418.211.00-1) but 470.161.03-1 is to be installed
 libnvidia-fatbinaryloader : Depends: libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler1 (= 418.211.00-1) but 470.161.03-1 is to be installed
 libnvidia-fatbinaryloader:i386 : Depends: libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler1:i386 (= 418.211.00-1) but 470.161.03-1 is to be installed
 nvidia-driver-libs-i386:i386 : Depends: nvidia-driver-libs:i386 (= 418.211.00-1) but 470.161.03-1 is to be installed

Why would it still depend on the ancient versions? Any way to fix it?
Thanks in advance.

Altoid

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Registered: 2017-05-07

Posts: 1,581  

Re: Trouble with Nvidia drivers

Hello:

The last time I updated my Nvidia drivers was probably before moving from beowulf to chimaera ...

Some Nvidia cards can no longer be used in Linux systems as Nvidia dropped support for them.
In my specific case, the 340.108 driver I use for my two perfectly working FX580 cards.

That is the main reason I am still on Devuan Beowulf running a backported kernel till I am forced to move on and use the Nouveau drivers.
Hopefully, they may work better than the last time I tried them.

You may want to have a read here and see if you find the answer you are looking for.

Best,

A.

czeekaj

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Registered: 2019-06-12

Posts: 154  

Re: Trouble with Nvidia drivers

Older cards I find will run best with nouveau drivers. They will play very nice.
Older nvidea cards also have minimal firmware on the hardware.

They are good to hold onto. Especially if you have a machine without an integrate gpu and need a card.

Lots of new gpu will introduce issues also you do not need them as newer machines will also have integrated graphics processing.

Last edited by czeekaj (2023-03-23 08:09:16)