Hi, On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 at 15:44, Simon Chopin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Dominik came to me as he tested the Desktop image with an old nvidia > graphics card (GTX 770), and the proprietary drivers for it weren't > installed when running the nvidia test scenario on the ISO tracker, > rather using the nouveau driver. > > IIRC for old hardware the relevant proprietary version is the 390, which > appears not to be available in Mantic but was in Lunar. > > It's not a huge problem as the feature coverage of nouveau for old > GPUs is pretty decent, however I'd like to know whether it was > intentional, and if so, can someone mention that in the release notes? >
Ubuntu ships the widest array of possible NVIDIA graphics driver families, in every release as practically feasible. It does come down to total number of drivers supported, the cards/families support matrix, if nvidia supports the driver, and if it can even build and work. We have a wider availability of drivers when online. Furthermore, on the ISO we require to only ship those drivers that are signed and thus available to work out of the box on the secureboot systems. Multiple drivers are no longer compatible with v6.5+ kernel and will not be available going forward. If one is required to use 390 series of the driver, my only recommendation is to remain on Jammy host, with v5.15 kernel. Even when staying on jammy v5.15 there is strong chance that 390 drivers will stop being compatible with security updates of the kernel itself. If that happens, one might be faced with ultimate dilema of using vulnerable kernel or have working nvidia gpu. Mantic ships with 9 NVIDIA driver series with the oldest one being 470. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/+bug/2035189 retired 4 nvidia drivers, and yes some of them have support for unique EOL cards that are not otherwise supported by newer drivers. I do not believe this is release note worthy, given each ubuntu release removes many packages, and hardware support is continuously added and removed. In the same way we don't list the hundreds of new NVIDIA cards from current generations that Mantic now enables out of the box. -- okurrr, Dimitri -- Ubuntu-release mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-release
