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nvidia-graphics-drivers-525 package

release schedule

Asked by Brendan Hack

Is there an estimated release schedule for the 525 nvidia driver package? We have an application which requires at least driver version 520.61.05 and I'm assuming that given 525 is now generally available from nvidia that it's more likely that the 525 package will be released rather than 520 updated to a more current driver (current ubuntu 520 is on 520.56.06)

I ask since we want to begin test deployments soon and need to decide whether to put effort into updating our system to automate driver installation from nvidia .run installers directly or just wait till 525 is available for Ubuntu (which would just be a 1 line update for us)

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#1

"520 updated to a more current driver (current ubuntu 520 is on 520.56.06)"
True : That is the current driver on Ubuntu 22.04.

"No Rolling Release"

Version: 525.53 BETA
Release Date: 2022.11.10
Operating System: Linux 64-bit
Language: English (US)
File Size: 394.19 MB
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/194278/en-us/
This driver only works on X-11..! Not Wayland.
https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-enable-disable-wayland-on-ubuntu-22-04-desktop

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Bernard Stafford (bernard010) said : 		#2

Bernard Stafford suggests this article as an answer to your question:
FAQ #3037: “no rolling release”.

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Brendan Hack (bhackp) said : 		#3

OK, so we shouldn't expect 525 to be released on 22.04 or 20.04 since it wasn't available when those jammy and bionic were initially released. That and it doesn't support Wayland which is the default ubuntu display protocol.

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said (last edit ): 		#4

For the "no rolling release" FAQ:
The nvidia driver packages are one of the exceptions; these packages are added/updated also in older Ubuntu releases.

By the way, the newest driver on the nvidia pages is no more 525.53 BETA, but 525.60.11
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/196723/en-us/

Work on a nvidia-525 package has already been started, see https://launchpad.net/~ricotz/+archive/ubuntu/staging/+packages?field.name_filter=nvidia
I have no information about a planned publishing schedule, that is within responsibility of the developers.

According to https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/ version 520.56.06 is the latest one of 520.* family, and that has already been packaged for all fully supported Ubuntu releases. I am not sure whether there will be any update on the 520 family (both by nvidia, or by Ubuntu).

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Brendan Hack (bhackp) said : 		#5

OK, I had a feeling it may have been exempt given how often major versions in nvidia drivers update versus the age of ubuntu releases.

I'm pretty sure the 520 driver version we require was never publicly released (at least via the driver search website, you can hand craft urls to download it though). If there's no timeline available for the 525 release we'll probably just look at how to install manually for now and then switch to the packaged ones once they're available. We'll definitely run into this problem again where our driver requirements are ahead of what Ubuntu has available so the engineering effort won't be wasted.

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monogato (luiscastro193) said : 		#6

For the record, a proposed version of the package is already avaliable (in less than a week after the NVIDIA release).

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Brendan Hack (bhackp) said : 		#7

Thanks! I saw the 525 driver is available now and have updated our deployments to use it. I do appreciate the speed of which these come out after the official nvidia release occurs.