Backport NVidia driver 430.50 to Buster

[Julien Aubin]

Hi,

I have tested drivers 430.40 and they work well. If there are new
drivers I can test them happily as I did previously. Did not test
driver 430.50 as of now.
Driver 440.26 has several issues that were fixed in driver 440.31
(source : NVidia website).

Le mar. 12 nov. 2019 à 15:21, Maxime G. <maxime at mxgo.fr> a écrit :
>
> Hi Julien.
>
> As is mentioned in the tracking page for nvidia: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nvidia-graphics-drivers
> 440.26-1 was accepted in experimental yesterday, Debian is a very stable distro, maintainers and quality teams can take all of their time to make great packages.
>
> You can purpose to bring your help to maintainers team for making a bpo version ?
>
> Regards.
> Max.
>
>
> 12 novembre 2019 13:41 "Julien Aubin" <julien.aubin at gmail.com> a écrit:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Any news about this topic ? This hampers UX for all those of us who
> > have newer NVidia hardware. :-(
> >
> > I've seen that NVidia 440.xx is the current LTS release BTW but series
> > 430.xx seems necessary now at least in BPO.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > Le jeu. 31 oct. 2019 à 16:29, Julien Aubin <julien.aubin at gmail.com> a écrit :
> >
> >> You can still install them from testing or experimental but it sucks, basically.
> >>
> >> Le jeu. 31 oct. 2019 à 16:24, <maxime at mxgo.fr> a écrit :
> >>
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I totally agree, it could solve the HDMI sound problem that some users
> >> like me encounter with 418 drivers on Debian 10.
> >> Nvidia has fixed it on higher versions.
> >> I am forced to break debian by installing drivers with their installer
> >> from nvidia website.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> Le 2019-10-31 13:51, Julien Aubin a écrit :
> >>> Le jeu. 26 sept. 2019 à 20:29, Julien Aubin <julien.aubin at gmail.com> a
> >>> écrit :
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> Could you please backport NVidia blob 430.50 to buster ? It is
> >>>> mandatory for those like me who own a Geforce RTX 20x0 SUPER.
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks a lot !
> >>>
> >>> Hi,
> >>> Some NVidia RTX SUPER cards are big hits, notably the 2070 SUPER.
> >>> However as of now it is tricky to make them work under Debian Stable
> >>> as they're only supported from 430.xx series which is the current LTS.
> >>> So could you please backport the 430.xx driver to Buster ?
> >>> Thanks a lot