Introduce the NVIDIA 520 UDA driver series
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
nvidia-graphics-drivers-515 (Ubuntu) |
In Progress
|
High
|
Alberto Milone |
Bug Description
[Impact]
These releases provide both bug fixes and new features, and we would like to
make sure all of our users have access to these improvements.
See the changelog entry below for a full list of changes and bugs.
[Test Case]
The following development and SRU process was followed:
https:/
Certification test suite must pass on a range of hardware:
https:/
The QA team that executed the tests will be in charge of attaching the artifacts and console output of the appropriate run to the bug. nVidia maintainers team members will not mark ‘verification-done’ until this has happened.
[Regression Potential]
In order to mitigate the regression potential, the results of the
aforementioned system level tests are attached to this bug.
[Discussion]
[Changelog]
== 520.56.06 (UDA) ==
* New upstream release:
- Implemented support for over-the-air updates in the Proton and
Wine NVIDIA NGX build. This feature is disabled by default and
can be enabled by setting the "PROTON_
environment variable to a value of "1".
- Updated the Vulkan driver so that the following extensions no
longer depend on nvidia-uvm.ko being loaded at runtime:
+ VK_KHR_
+ VK_KHR_
+ VK_KHR_ray_query
+ VK_KHR_
+ VK_NV_cuda_
+ VK_NV_ray_tracing
+ VK_NV_ray_
+ VK_NVX_
+ VK_NVX_
- Updated nvidia-installer to allow use of the "--add-this-
kernel" feature by non-root users.
- Updated nvidia-installer to display a more accurate progress
bar when building the kernel modules.
- Updated nvidia-installer to display a warning message if a
Vulkan ICD loader is not detected.
- Reworked nvidia-installer's support for DKMS: the kernel
modules will now be optionally registered with DKMS after the
installer has already built and installed them on its own.
nvidia-
by default when the dkms(8) utility is detected on the system.
- Fixed a bug in the Vulkan driver which could lead to corruption
in geometry and tessellation control shaders.
- Added a new CUDA Debugger implementation for Pascal and newer
architectures as a part of the driver package:
libcudade
Developer Preview").
- Fixed a regression in 515.76 that caused blank screens and
hangs when starting an X server on RTX 30 series GPUs in some
configura
- Fixed a bug where Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered would
sometimes crash with Xid 13 errors on Turing and later.
Changed in nvidia-graphics-drivers-515 (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
All autopkgtests for the newly accepted nvidia- graphics- drivers- 520 (520.56. 06-0ubuntu0. 22.04.1) for jammy have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:
pyopencl/ 2021.2. 13-1build1 (armhf)
Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUp dates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].
https:/ /people. canonical. com/~ubuntu- archive/ proposed- migration/ jammy/update_ excuses. html#nvidia- graphics- drivers- 520
[1] https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/StableRelea seUpdates# Autopkgtest_ Regressions
Thank you!