Hey there!
Which one is the latest supported nVidia driver forr Zorin?
In my Software Updater appears no "tested" anymore.
Thanks!
Use 570 driver. I am surprised Zorin is offering it. Pop! OS did not add it in their repo.
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You should never use any nvidia driver listed as (tested) - they are the trouble-makers!
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I agree, only use proprietary drivers from Nvidia!
I find it interesting that the 555 driver is not in your list. But you have the 570 driver which is not in my list. I recently updated my system yesterday, and it didn't come with any GPU driver updates from Nvidia, and I haven't had an update since he 560 driver was released.
FYI, don't use the 560 driver, its a buggy piece of mess, I don't recommend!
The "Tested" status of Nvidia drivers can be a bit misleading.
What it means is that branch of the driver was specifically run by the Ubuntu Graphics team on testing systems, thus earning it that title.
It does not mean that it was tested by the community at large.
Why you do not see (Tested) listed anymore:
Ubuntu has changed how they manage drivers, for a variety of reasons. Nvidia releases drivers at a faster pace than they used to - which allows for many available drivers to end users making the need for a specifically tested driver much less relevant.
Ubuntu has also moved away from Jockey-gtk, replacing it with Ubuntu-Drivers-common. This new package automates the process of selecting drivers, making End User selection less necessary. They way the new package is written, it does not negotiate any difference between a tested branch and the proprietary branch.
So, we will no longer see the (Tested) offered from Zorin OS 17 onward.
Why there is some controversy about (tested) drivers:
The Nvidia 470 (tested Proprietary) driver had some rather blatant bugs in it. At that time, I encouraged users on this forum to avoid the 470 (tested) branch, much how users today recommend against the 560 branch.
This led to the assumption that the entirety of the (Tested) branches were all best avoided... I know I have commented previously that it was only the 470 (Tested) that had the bug, even though the standard 470 (Proprietary) did not. I am not sure how it was that the 470 tested branch ended up bugged.
I have 570 installed and it also shows in my list.
I do have the X-swat Ubuntu graphics PPA added.
That explains it, I don't have that PPA added to my system. Are there any problems with having that PPA, and using anything it provides, as in, conflicts with anything else? Or is it just perfectly fine to use that, and there are no issues, no conflicts of any kind, and won't black screen my system by using any of it?
I've become wary of things like that, because of what I've experienced in the past, thats why I ask.
Not at all, it is one of the first things I add.
What it supplies is updated Mesa, drivers and other graphics related patches and for us Nvidia users... I consider it essential.
For AMD users, I point toward the Oibaf drivers. My chief complaint with Oibaf is their short term support before they leave you hanging in the wind all by yourself.
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For my amd system that's more modern than my laptop, I choose to go with Kisak, just because it's a little bit longer supporting and I don't need the immediate release as soon as they're available. I can wait a bit, just as long as I'm closer to that point.
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I see, is this a good ppa ? How long are you using this ppa ?
For some reason my distro still did not add it. So i am leaning towards manual install and this one. They also offer mesa ? That is interesting too since mine is behind.
It is an Ubuntu team PPA so, some distro's may not be compatible.
At least three or four years. As I said, I consider it an essential thing to do after installing the OS.
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I was able to add the PPA successfully, as well as run an update in terminal. Sadly, no more Nvidia drivers are available in the list at this time. Either they didn't get around to it yet, or its because I am on OS 16, and support is slowly phazing out, till the 5th month, when support is completely dead.
I've been noticing this trend going on with Gnome Look extensions over the past year. Where pages that didn't used to have this message, now have the "your native host device" error boxes top of page now, on pretty much every extension there is. I know support is on its way out, but the 5th month aint here yet, and I'd like to have at least 1 more Nvidia driver update before then.
As usual when it comes to updates, its always a waiting game.
Yes, that is why.
@StarTreker , Pop! OS seems to have a testing repo and does offer focal support
https://apt-origin.pop-os.org/staging/nvidia-570/pool/
sudo apt-manage add popdev:nvidia-570
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-570 nvidia-dkms-570