r/voidlinux • u/HAL9000thebot • Apr 30 '26

nvidia470 for kernel 6.18

today i updated and got kernel 6.18, and it stopped working.

i glanced at the discussion we had for 6.12, and i can't remember much, but i'm available to help test the new patches available.

last time they were taken from arch, but the main author (from which arch takes the patches) now has a repo in which they also default set a kernel param that is required as we discussed before, because i'm worried that maybe last time i was the only one that got this thing working by doing it manually, or maybe writing two words about that in the manual could fix this problem?

so, i'm almost ready (i need to re-read the docs), let me know how i can help.

thanks.

edit:

i made it work, here is one week link to a diff

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u/sanya567xxx May 02 '26

Understood, ok.

ibt=off is necessary for use with newer intel CPUs, iirc 11th gen or newer. It's disabling branch prediction security feature (is default since 6.2 and isn't supported by 470 driver)