NVIDIA 390.42 Linux Driver Released

[godlike_panos]

390.25 was a very bad release. Had to downgrade as well.

[Guest]

Yes. it was marked as stable release but was beta quality.

[theriddick]

Not sure if I had the flickering issue but I installed this with Kernel4.15.9 without any issues.

[Guest]

Not sure if I had the flickering issue but I installed this with Kernel4.15.9 without any issues.

it was only flickering if you explicitly set ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On or ForceCompositionPipeline=On in xorg.conf for example. Those option are off by default.

[theriddick]

I generally always have those on, with triplebuffer option in conf.

[Guest]

I generally always have those on, with triplebuffer option in conf.

Yep, I have that option as well. It's good the flicker mentioned in the changelog wasn't happening on your computer then :-)

[AdamOne]

Weird, the driver being developed in closed setting, it's like.. god job? Even though I have no idea what you're doing...

[vw_fan17]

Where can I find out which kernel this release will work with officially (i.e. latest release it should support)? I have a Ryzen 1700 and want to upgrade from 4.12.2 and 384.98. However, 4.15.2 and 390.25 did NOT like being paired up (blank screen). Given theriddick's report, I will probably try this version with a more recent kernel, but would love to know if there's an official location to look or something?

[vw_fan17]

Is there some official documentation about which kernel versions are suitable for this driver? I tried 4.15.2 with 390.25 and got a black screen. Based on theriddick's report of success, I'll probably try again soon.. Would love to get some native sensor support for my Ryzen 1700.