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Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 1:10 AM Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> I'm back to my old kernel tho since my nvidia-drivers won't work with a |
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>> kernel that high. I run into this on rare occasions. |
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> They are only rare because you aren't updating regularly. |
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> If you want to run external kernel modules like nvidia-drivers or zfs, |
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> stick to a longterm kernel. The ABI changes all the time, and so |
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> there will frequently be stable kernel version changes that break |
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> nvidia-drivers. Then there will be a lag before nvidia-drivers |
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> supports the new stable kernel. In the meantime you can't run the |
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> latest version, and that can mean security issues. |
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> The longterm kernels rarely break nvidia-drivers and get all the |
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> security and other fixes. They just don't get new features. |
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Well, I was calling how often this has happened since around 2003 or so |
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when I started using Linux. I think this has happened maybe two or |
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three times. While they always say they don't support above a certain |
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version, usually it just works. This time, not so much. |
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I did build a 5.19 version tho. I haven't rebooted yet tho. May be a |
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while. o_O |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |