NVIDIA 418.43 Stable Linux Driver Released, Includes GTX 1660 Ti Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: NVIDIA 418.43 Stable Linux Driver Released, Includes GTX 1660 Ti Support

As expected given today's GeForce GTX 1660 Ti launch, NVIDIA has released a new Linux graphics driver supporting the 1660 Ti as well as the RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design and RTX 2080 with Max-Q Design, among other changes...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NVIDIA-418.43-Linux-Release

[pinguinpc]

According nvidia json file:

{ "fileformat_version" : "1.0.0", "ICD": { "library_path": "NV_VK_ICD_", "api_version" : "1.1.95" } }

[bosjc]

Anyone know if this includes the vulkan beta changes (fix for Warhammer 2/etc)?

[ThoreauHD]

Still no PPA release for 418.

[theriddick]

I hope VRR can be made to work for windowed games also, and it be nice if they found a way to allow multi monitor support, it works so damn well under Windows and the VRR functionality and ease of use under Linux is a mere shadow of that.

[creative]

So far no issues with it.

[v21cesc]

Is it possible to make a fresh installation of some modern distros like the newest ubuntu18.10 or fedora29 with 1660ti.
I failed to do that with fedora 29, any advice?

[v21cesc]

You can try my distribution, it has no nvidia drivers and uses the Vesa driver. Install the nvidia driver manually as documented.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKJ-IatUfis

Thanks for replying.
I finally managed to do that. There is something wrong with fedora workstation version. The graphical installer won't start. Then I tried the LXDE spin. It's OK. After finishing the installation including the nvidia binary driver, I had to switch back to GDM to avoid the black login screen failure.

[VladyslavAfrin]

You can try my distribution, it has no nvidia drivers and uses the Vesa driver. Install the nvidia driver manually as documented.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKJ-IatUfis

Thank you. It helped me.

[Kano]

Somehow the NVIDIA news with support for new product XYZ are funny. First you get news that some chips are not under support anymore and now that new chips are supported. The only change is that they added a new line for each product (similar to lspci -nn) where you need the correct

http://pciids.sourceforge.net/v2.2/pci.ids

(updated via update-pciids btw.)

If you add the corresponding ID (well not in the pci.ids, but inside the NVIDIA OpenGL userspace driver), then the driver will show the name, if you remove the line, it won't show the correct name but a generic one. The driver is so generic in most cases that it does not matter at all if the correct name is shown or not...