Advisories » MGAA-2021-0240

Updated nvidia-current packages

Publication date: 26 Dec 2021
Modification date: 25 Dec 2021
Type: bugfix
Affected Mageia releases : 8

Description

This update provides the 470.94 driver from the R470 production branch,
adding support for more GPUs, and fixes various bugs:

* Adds support for the following GPUs:
  NVIDIA PG509-210

* Worked around an issue that prevented some games from flipping (and
  therefore taking advantage of G-SYNC and G-SYNC Compatible monitors)
  on certain desktops such as GNOME.

* Fixed a bug that caused nvidia-drm.ko to crash when loading with
  DRM-KMS enabled (modeset=1) on Linux v5.14.
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=29804
• https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/184163/en-us

SRPMS

8/core

• ldetect-lst-0.6.26.9-1.mga8

8/nonfree

• nvidia-current-470.94-1.mga8.nonfree