NVIDIA 520.56.06 Linux Driver Released With OTA Updates For Proton/Wine NVIDIA NGX Build

[marlock]

You're pretty much right, but you're pretty much guaranteed to be annoyed by this in the future with increasing consistency

[CochainComplex]

Nah OTA is generally used for updates over the internet that can be executed automatically in the background and they don't need any manual intervention by the user, other than maybe clicking on "Update now" and waiting until it did its thing.


Nowadays even cars advertise OTA update support.
Rather than bringing your car to the car workshop where a mechanic will have to update/flash multiple components manually and seperately from each other, you have one central computer that downloads the update over the internet, and the update process is simplified to literally just pressing "Update now!".

.. but OTA means just Over-The-Air Update which has replaced the classic tethered update process for mobile devices like Phones, Navigationdevices, Smartwatches etc. It makes also sense to use the term for cars as you have described.
But calling a classic gfxdrivers update OTA is just BS.
By this definition all Windows Updates are OTA. Then all updates on PC are OTA?
So if all Updates on computers are OTA Updates we could drop the OTA part of the "OTA update" Term for the sake simplicity. Then it is just Updates.

[Degra]

The term OTA update is most commonly used these days when describing android os updates delivered over the LTE network.

Nah OTA is generally used for updates over the internet that can be executed automatically in the background and they don't need any manual intervention by the user, other than maybe clicking on "Update now" and waiting until it did its thing.


Nowadays even cars advertise OTA update support.
Rather than bringing your car to the car workshop where a mechanic will have to update/flash multiple components manually and seperately from each other, you have one central computer that downloads the update over the internet, and the update process is simplified to literally just pressing "Update now!".

[Phil995511]

This driver is sadly still incompatible with Debian 11 and kernel 5.19.x ;-(

[ssokolow]

So it is indeed just a flashy term for describing updates!

In this context, probably a flashy term for "updates that don't have to wait for the usual means", since OTA is contrasted with "update by plugging your phone into your PC".

[sarmad]

The term OTA update is most commonly used these days when describing android os updates delivered over the LTE network.

So it is indeed just a flashy term for describing updates!

[partcyborg]

What does over-the-air update mean anyway? It sounds like some flashy term used by sales departments to describe the same update process that we've had for ages.

The term OTA update is most commonly used these days when describing android os updates delivered over the LTE network.

[aufkrawall]

This driver greets me with fugly banding.

[gsrcrxsi]

anyone seeing a performance regression on this driver vs 515.76?

I'm on Linux kernel 6, and was using 515.76 fine, but with the headache of the 30-series/HDMI black screen bug. I was working around this by leaving HDMI unplugged until the OS booted

updating to 520.56.06 fixed that bug, but performance seems worse. unfortunately only these two drivers seem to support linux 6.0. so either I have black screen bug with good performance or no black screen bug with bad performance . OpenCL compute workload.

[sarmad]

What does over-the-air update mean anyway? It sounds like some flashy term used by sales departments to describe the same update process that we've had for ages.