@Kuba: That makes zero sense. The only people left using 470 are Kepler GPU owners (and maybe a few lost souls with newer GPU's). They cannot use a newer driver like 535, so making 470 a transitional package is just going to break everyone's system in a different way. If you don't want to patch it to work with newer kernels, please just mark it "Won't Fix" and leave it alone. At least this way, people can use GA (6.8) kernel and have 470 driver working until 24.04 is EoL.
"Compilation may pass, but there is no way to proof test that what compiled is actually working." That would still be far better than what you have now, or your transitional package plan. How come other distros like Debian can do this, but you won't? "If Nvidia stopped supporting the driver, we won't pick it up." Ubuntu patched 390 driver for two years after it was officially dropped by Nvidia. This seems to be a change in policy. "All drivers are compiled against all kernels that we support so there should not be a situation that dkms fails to build a driver." But this is exactly what Ubuntu did with 390 during the 22.04 cycle. It worked on some kernels, but not others, and critically, not the 6.8 kernel. "they actually recommend using nouveau for old cards" Of course they do, because that sounds better than "we no longer support this GPU". But nouveau has its own issues.. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2110338 Title: Nvidia 470/470-server fails to build on kernel 6.14 HWE To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-470/+bug/2110338/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
