NVIDIA drivers version

[Emilio J. Padrón González]

Hi Andreas!

> and I'm now replying with my NVIDIA Maintainer hat on :-)

Thanks a lot for your reply :-)


> In Debian we try to track the "long lived branch" releases (and the
> legacy branch releases in their own set of packages).

Yeah, I realized that policy. And I think that is the right path, of
course.

Actually, my problem (as you can see) is basically... why the hell is
NVIDIA offering the CUDA packages ist deep learning stuff depends on
with such a weird driver versions: 418.39, 418.40, 418.67 :-?


> I have no clue what (software and versions) NVIDIA or other vendors are
> providing as packages. There is already enough to do for a consistent
> NVIDIA stack within the contrib and non-free components of Debian :-)

Sure! Thank you for your hard work, of course :-)

I appreciate a lot the good up-to-date NVIDIA drivers we have in Debian
(working in HPC stuff I need the privative NVIDIA stuff...).

I know my problem wasn't with the versions being packaged in Debian. I
was basically asking for some piece of advice like the one you give me:

> You can probably stick with an older driver version until you can update
> the driver on your whole software stack. All old packages are available
> from snapshot.debian.org, 410.104 is not a risk security-wise, it just
> lacks support for a bunch of current cards.

Thanks a lot for your piece of advice! I'll keep the driver for the time
being.

Regards,
E

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Emilio J. Padrón González
Grupo de Arquitectura de Computadores (GAC)
Universidade da Coruña
http://gac.udc.es/~emilioj