rinaldus

  • Nov 16, 2020
  • Joined Oct 24, 2019
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  • In Update GNOME, NVidia drivers, kernel?
  • In Update GNOME, NVidia drivers, kernel?

    rinaldus NVidia drivers to 455,

    They have been available since the middle of September, as the nvidia-beta-driver package. The update to the stable series came out just today, so no surprise we haven't got that one yet (will package it in a couple of minutes though)

    rinaldus kernel to 5.8.x

    There is an as of yet still unresolved issue with NVMe controllers and this kernel series, so it won't be updated until that is fixed.

    rinaldus GNOME to 3.38

    No idea, I haven't been following that one.

    edit: ninja'd by DataDrake 🙂

        • In Update GNOME, NVidia drivers, kernel?

          rinaldus We don't ship .0 versions of anything unless it's unavoidable. They tend to be buggy as hell. GNOME will have to wait until at least 3.38.1 is available. nvidia-beta-driver is already on 455. Kernel 5.8 is blocking on an NVMe bug that keeps my system from booting. Until it gets fixed, I can't update the kernel.

          • In Feb. 7th Sync Deferred To Next Week (Feb. 14th)

            Hey everyone!

            In the event you haven't been following the development tracker over the last few days, there's been a massive upgrade to Python 3 (bringing it up to 3.7.6 from the 3.6 series), thanks to the hard work of @joebonrichie which has spanned over several days. This upgrade touches hundreds of packages and similar to other deferring we've done to previous stack upgrades (such as to GNOME), I'm going to be deferring sync to the stable repository this week until next Friday (Feb. 14th).

            This will give us time to:

            1. Perform further testing of the Python 3 stack and fix stragglers.
            2. Perform additional testing on our new kernel (5.5.1, which we'll bring up to 5.5.2) and ensure that the NVIDIA 340 GLX Driver (which is no longer supported by NVIDIA) is properly deprecated and we give users which may have custom xorg configs additional heads up. We also have validation to perform on VirtualBox (per a patch from @kyrios).
            3. Perform upgrades to additional stacks, namely to ALSA and our toolchain (glibc, LLVM, etc.).
            4. Put out a blog post / roundup with all this information, aiming for early next week.

            As always we strive for a smooth upgrade process for you, as well as providing you a curated rolling release experience that balances getting you the newest goodies and system stability, so thank you in advance for your understanding!