When the first beta 550 came out I was testing the driver and the laptop sometimes froze randomly. I didn’t know what was causing it until I went back to the 545 drivers and it was fixed. I thought it would be a problem because they were beta but no. It also happens to me with the stable version. W…

We have fixed a memory corruption issue specific to notebooks recently and request you to please test with driver 550.107.02 and share test results. https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/550.107.02/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-550.107.02.run

It’s been a month and a half since this issue was reported. Some of us have been apt to point out that NVDIA should care about its customer base on Linux due to the current prevalence of AI and machine learning on GPUs, but I am starting to suspect that this is exactly why they don’t care about Linu…

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Driver crashed during a kernel update… (still on 550.67) [20240418_064501]

oh I cannot wait for Nouveau and NVK to have on par performance with the closed source driver. As soon as those are ready I’m fucking deleting the entire NVIDIA closed source stack. Never have I had a single issue with any Linux systems until I got NVIDIA’s packages on them.

Why not go back to the 535 branch while waiting? The previous production branch is currently still supported and getting security&bugfix releases. Regressions like this is partly why these keep being supported until things settle down. There should be no need to wait for a fix while having your sys…

If only it was that simple. Truth is if you wanna do any compute on GPU, especially anything to do with AI. CUDA is where it is at. AMD is far far behind. Industry uses Nvidia. I know geohotz have been trying to write something to make deep learning on AMD closer to Nvidia. I don’t think it took of…

Has anybody tested 550.76 to see if the issue is fixed?

By the way, the new 535 driver supports linux kernel 6.8. You can at least upgrade the kernel now.

550.76 boots fine here in Arch (after editing PKGBUILD and building the package manually.) Will test the issue whether it still occurs… EDIT: The panic happened, guessing it’s not fixed. EDIT2: I also tried the nvidia-open driver and got interestingly similar kernel panic but seems more readable. …

Series 550 freezes laptop

Graphics / Linux Linux

Tarballwalf April 18, 2024, 5:18am 77

Forza Horizon 5 only works on 550. upgrading and downgrading each time I want to play becomes a chore. Plus I’m stuck on the older 6.7.4 (I believe) kernel, incomplete system.

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Series 550 freezes laptop

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