Bug 25950 - Update request: nvidia340-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree
Summary: Update request: nvidia340-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: 7
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: QA Team
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard: MGA7-64-OK, MGA7-32-OK
Keywords: advisory, validated_update
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2019-12-24 13:19 CET by Thomas Backlund
Modified: 2019-12-31 17:52 CET (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM: nvidia340
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Description Thomas Backlund 2019-12-24 13:19:49 CET 
So nVidia made good on its promise to support nvidia340 until end of 2019 :)

They have now released an updated driver that officially supports all kernels atleast up to 5.4 series :)


SRPM:
nvidia340-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree.src.rpm

i586:
dkms-nvidia340-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree.i586.rpm
nvidia340-cuda-opencl-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree.i586.rpm
nvidia340-devel-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree.i586.rpm
nvidia340-doc-html-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree.i586.rpm
x11-driver-video-nvidia340-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree.i586.rpm

x86_64:
dkms-nvidia340-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
nvidia340-cuda-opencl-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
nvidia340-devel-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
nvidia340-doc-html-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree.x86_64.rpm
x11-driver-video-nvidia340-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree.x86_64.rpm


reference:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/156163/en-us
Thomas Backlund 2019-12-25 15:14:52 CET

Keywords: (none) => advisory

Comment 1 PC LX 2019-12-27 01:27:03 CET 
Installed and tested without issues.

Tested for a few hours, mostly with some steam and non-steam games but also tested WebGL and glmark2.



System: Mageia 7, x86_64, Plasma DE, LXQt DE, Intel CPU, nVidia Geforce 210 using nvidia340 proprietary driver.



$ uname -a
Linux marte 5.4.6-desktop-2.mga7 #1 SMP Mon Dec 23 12:05:27 UTC 2019 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lspcidrake | grep -i geforce
Card:NVIDIA GeForce 8100 to GeForce 415: NVIDIA Corporation|GT218 [GeForce 210] [DISPLAY_VGA] (rev: a2)
$ rpm -qa | grep nvidia | sort
dkms-nvidia340-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree
nvidia340-doc-html-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree
x11-driver-video-nvidia340-340.108-1.mga7.nonfree
$ dkms status
nvidia340, 340.108-1.mga7.nonfree, 5.4.6-desktop-2.mga7, x86_64: installed 
$ glmark2
=======================================================
    glmark2 2017.07
=======================================================
    OpenGL Information
    GL_VENDOR:     NVIDIA Corporation
    GL_RENDERER:   GeForce 210/PCIe/SSE2
    GL_VERSION:    3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108
=======================================================
<SNIP>

CC: (none) => mageia

Comment 2 Bill Wilkinson 2019-12-31 13:50:26 CET 
Tested on one system under both 32 and 64 bit, general usage (Plasma 5, a few simple games, general use, Youtube videos) No regressions noted.

CC: (none) => wrw105

Thomas Backlund 2019-12-31 17:14:07 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => MGA7-64-OK, MGA7-32-OK
CC: (none) => sysadmin-bugs
Keywords: (none) => validated_update

Comment 3 Mageia Robot 2019-12-31 17:52:33 CET 
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository.

https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2019-0250.html

Resolution: (none) => FIXED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED
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