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sleepingsun
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 2:12 pm    Post subject: GeForce GT 730 problem with kernel 6.12 Reply with quote

Hi all kernel include 6.6.x this graphic card works after i compile new stable 6.12 kernel (gentoo-sources) i cant up graphic card and kde-meta gui also emerge drivers failed

last driver for this card is


Code:
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
Dependency resolution took 9.31 s (backtrack: 0/20).

[ebuild   R    ] x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-470.256.02-r2:0/470::gentoo  USE="X modules static-libs strip tools -dist-kernel -modules-compress -modules-sign -persistenced" ABI_X86="(64) -32" 0 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]



Code:
18:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 730] (rev a1)


Any chance for this card or its droped by gentoo ?
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molletts
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

It looks like the 470.x drivers were officially supported by Nvidia for kernels up to 6.6. Beyond that, you're on your own as far as they're concerned.

There appears to be an unofficial patch for kernel 6.12 which has been created by a user; you can get it from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-470xx-dkms along with the 6.10 patch which you'll also need. You may need some or all of the other patches too. If you stick them in /etc/portage/patches/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-470.256.02, they should be applied automatically when you emerge the drivers. Hopefully, you won't need to add any further patches for the lifetime of the 6.12 LTS kernel.

I use the equivalent 390.x patches to keep my GTX460 going, although I track the unstable kernel so I sometimes have to hold off updating to the latest until a new patch becomes available.

[edit - premature publication! got distracted then didn't finish typing...]
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Josef.95
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 02, 2025 7:09 pm    Post subject: Re: GeForce GT 730 problem with kernel 6.12 Reply with quote

sleepingsun wrote:

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Any chance for this card or its droped by gentoo ?

The 470 driver is end of live by upstream,
not dropped by gentoo.
With this (hard masked) driver version, you should stay on stable 6.6 LTS Kernel.
Code:
grep KERNEL_MAX x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers/nvidia-drivers-470.256.02-r2.ebuild
MODULES_KERNEL_MAX=6.6
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