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I don't think there's an inherent issue with 580, but maybe others can chime in with different info.
Do you know the install source for the packages?
I'm not sure, I just hit install updates when it popped up in Discover. Just looked again and there were a few updates to KDE and Gnome I just installed so maybe that was the problem, but now that I got 570 working again I'm not trying it for a bit
I would generally never update to the latest driver with an nvidia card. On some distros it might work out, but i have always had less issues by just staying one or more major versions behind. If your system auto updates to latest, then thats kinda bad design by the distro devs imho. What distro are you on?
I'm on Ubuntu Studio 24.04. A few days ago I saw that 580 was released but didn't know how to install it. Today I had auto updates show up so I installed them. 580 was one of them I guess. The taskbar froze up and I got mouse pointer trailing all ove the desktop. Everything else worked fine. I'll pay more attention next time and exclude 580 in updates for now.
I would have thought that ubuntu does proper stability testing before pushing out updates. Well im glad you were able to get it working again.
Yeah, maybe it just doesn't play well with my 3060. I'll leave it at 570 for awhile. Thanks.
I don't know if it's the same in Ubuntu Studio, but in Ubuntu and derivates you can launch sudo software-properties-gtk or sudo software-properties-qt from a terminal. In the window that appears, choose the tab 'Additional Drivers'. There you can choose the Nvidia graphic drivers you prefer among older and newer versions. Good way to roll back.
Apologies if this was obvious 🙏
Just wanted to jump back in and mention I tried 580 again, same thing. I was able to launch software sources from the terminal with this. Thanks!
Happy to have helped! I'm myself testing 580 now, fingers crossed :)
How'd it go?
Thanks for asking. I think I've had it for a week, and luckily no issues so far. I use it sparsely though, I always have on-demand mode. But I imagine Ubuntu Studio has important differences from Ubuntu?
I'm not sure, what's on demand mode? I had to roll back to 550 and get plasmashell freezing. 570 wouldn't play video in my video editing program. Might try going to Nouveau and see how that works
I think they dropped support for 10xx era cards with 580. Maybe that's it.
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