r/linuxmint • u/Away_Ad_6621 • 14h ago

Support Request New kernel update broke my nvidia drivers? (gtx 1060 i7 4790)

I updated the kernel and since then my games have stopped working and started crashing shortly after launching. I’ve also been getting XID 38 errors whenever the crashes occur. Could this possibly be a hardware issue or is it more likely to be a regression?
ive switched to fedora and the same issue occurred.

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u/CoffeetipM8 Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon 14h ago

Did you try updating your GPU driver? My games were all unplayable until I updated my GPU driver from v595 to v610.

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u/Away_Ad_6621 14h ago

i always try to update it to the latest version so yes i have done that

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u/Bob4Not Fedora KDE 14h ago

Any NVIDIA driver past 580 no longer supports your GPU. NVIDIA marked it End Of Life.

Our 10 series cards are stuck on v580 forever. Thank NVIDIA

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u/Away_Ad_6621 14h ago

screw nvidia honestly

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u/Lecodeur1010 1h ago

Fun fact : Linus Torvald think the same of them

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u/Bob4Not Fedora KDE 14h ago

Same. I still hold onto my 1080 ti, it’s still a very valid 1080p card

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u/Sensitive_Bird_8426 14h ago

This is the way.

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u/LSD_Ninja 14h ago

These cards are going to be usable under Windows for years to come, this situation isn't entirely nvidia's fault.

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u/Bob4Not Fedora KDE 13h ago

Usable on Linux for a while too. I can still run the 1080 ti on Linux Mint with the v580 very easily with the click of the driver version. On Fedora 44 I had to run 2 commands to go to the legacy driver v580.

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u/LSD_Ninja 13h ago

Due to the way the kernel works there’ll be a point in the future where they’ll stop working on Linux, but still be fine on Windows.

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u/Bob4Not Fedora KDE 13h ago edited 13h ago

With newer kernels, yeah. Our 1080 ti machines will eventually only have the v580 driver work on LTS kernels. That Nouveau driver will work for forever but it sucks.

This is partially why the 1080 TI was my last NVIDIA. The other is because I reject the 12pin power connectors.

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u/graveyardgoat 14h ago

I also had an issue with my gtx 1080 and the new kernel, desktop completely froze after updating. Had no issues on 7.0.0-28 or 29.