{"id":1072,"date":"2024-08-21T15:03:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/nvidia-releases-560-linux-driver-featuring-open-gpu-kernel-modules-by-default\/"},"modified":"2025-02-11T06:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T06:47:29","slug":"nvidia-releases-560-linux-driver-featuring-open-gpu-kernel-modules-by-default","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serverhost.com\/blog\/nvidia-releases-560-linux-driver-featuring-open-gpu-kernel-modules-by-default\/","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA Releases 560 Linux Driver Featuring Open GPU Kernel Modules by Default"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>NVIDIA today announced the stable release of their 560 graphics driver series for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems. Marking a significant update, this release defaults to the open-source GPU kernel modules. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>The new NVIDIA 560 graphics driver&#8217;s highlights include an enhanced nvidia-installer that by default integrates the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/nvidia-560-linux-graphics-driver-to-fully-adopt-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NVIDIA Open-Source GPU kernel modules<\/a><\/strong> on supported NVIDIA GPUs. Compatible GPU series include NVIDIA Turing, Ampere, Ada Lovelace, Blackwell, Grace Hopper, and Hopper.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Additionally, the release supports new extensions such as EGL_KHR_platform_x11 and EGL_EXT_platform_xcb on Xwayland. It also introduces a PipeWire backend to NvFBC for better screencasting on Wayland and allows multiple concurrent clients to access NvFBC direct capture.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Further, the NVIDIA 560 update includes DRM-KMS explicit synchronization support through IN_FENCE_FD mode setting property, extends VRR (Variable Refresh Rate) support to pre-Volta GPUs on Wayland, enhances VRR capabilities on laptops, and introduces reporting for Vulkan information via the nvidia-settings control panel.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Among other changes, this release updates the glXWaitVideoSyncSGI() function to be more efficient to further reduce frame stutter in some <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/kde-plasma-6-1-3-improves-flatpak-support-in-discover-fixes-more-bugs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KDE Plasma<\/a><\/strong> configurations with GSP offload, and implements a new requirement for Vulkan header files when compiling nvidia-settings from source.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Several bugs and issues were addressed as well, including a bug where some DVI outputs wouldn\u2019t work with HDMI monitors, a bug affecting KDE Plasma users while hovering over or opening applets when running in Wayland compositor mode leading to a Plasma freeze, and a bug causing display freeze when presenting windows using Wayland direct scanout on multi-monitor setups.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Also fixed in the NVIDIA 560 graphics driver series is a bug causing kernel crashes when attempting KMS operations through DRM if the nvidia_drm module was loaded with <code>modeset=0<\/code>, a bug that caused widespread crashing with Xwayland games, a bug causing memory corruption while handling ACPI events on some laptops, and a regression that caused the nvidia-powerd daemon to exit when the nvidia-dbus.conf file wasn\u2019t present in the \/etc\/dbus-1\/system.d\/ directory.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Moreover, this release addresses a bug that could cause external monitors to become frozen until the next modeset if the users used PRIME Display Offloading with the NVIDIA dGPU acting as the display offload sink, a bug that caused OpenGL <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5linux.com\/kde-plasma-6-1-desktop-environment-officially-released-heres-whats-new\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">triple buffering<\/a><\/strong> to behave like double buffering, and a bug that showed displays multiple times in the nvidia-settings display layout configuration page on multi-GPU systems.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Multiple issues that caused crashes or unexpected behaviors when re-creating an NvFBC capture session were fixed as well in this release, along with a bug that caused the graphics driver installation to fail when the system used alternate implementations of the <code>tr<\/code> utility, and a bug that could cause the wrong image format to be used for render pass image clears in Vulkan apps when using a VkImage created with VK_IMAGE_CREATE_MUTABLE_FORMAT_BIT.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>Check out the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/drivers\/details\/230918\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">release notes<\/a><\/em> for more details about the changes introduced by the first stable version of the NVIDIA 560 graphics driver series, namely NVIDIA 560.35.03, which you can download from the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/drivers\/unix\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">official website<\/a><\/em> for 64-bit and AArch64 (ARM64) Linux systems, as well as FreeBSD and Solaris systems.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><em>Image credits: NVIDIA Corporation (edited by Marius Nestor)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Last updated 1 second ago<\/i><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NVIDIA today announced the stable release of their 560 graphics driver series for Linux, FreeBSD, and Solaris systems. 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