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0008684Kali LinuxKali Package Improvementpublic2024-03-21 13:50
Reporterm4d Assigned Todaniruiz  
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityhave not tried
Status closedResolutionno change required 
Summary0008684: Please update nvidia drivers in nvidia-driver package more regularly
Description

Hello dear Kali Team,

It would be wonderful if you could provide more up-to-date drivers in the nvidia-driver package and related packages, maybe by establishing a role of updating to the most current nvidia driver when you publish a new kali release.

as far as I see, kali still ships with nvidia 525.xxx, which is quite old already. As a consequence, the system doesn't recognize my RTX4000 generation graphics card correctly. For example nvidia x-server settings fails to recognize it, which is not surprising because the 4000 generation was introduced after that driver version was released. The most current is 550.xxx or so, so my other Linux distro (I dual boot) recognizes the card without problem.

It is also important because depending on the specific nvidia graphics card, nouveau is no alternative as it might cause random freezes (I had this issue with an RTX 2000 generation card). In my experience the proprietary driver is significantly more stable.

Thank you very much for considering my request :)

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m4d

m4d

2024-03-21 09:51

reporter   ~0019056

Of course I meant establish a *rule, not a role :)

daniruiz

daniruiz

2024-03-21 13:49

manager   ~0019058

The current version of nvidia-driver package is 525.147.05 which was released in 10/31/2023. That's only 4 and a half months and does support rtx4000 GPUs
https://docs.nvidia.com/datacenter/tesla/tesla-release-notes-525-147-05/index.html

Anyway, if you check debian package the version 530.41.03-4 is already in debian unstable repo and 535.154.05 in experimental, so it might arrive at kali soon https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/nvidia-graphics-drivers

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2024-03-21 09:48 m4d New Issue
2024-03-21 09:51 m4d Note Added: 0019056
2024-03-21 13:49 daniruiz Note Added: 0019058
2024-03-21 13:50 daniruiz Assigned To => daniruiz
2024-03-21 13:50 daniruiz Status new => closed
2024-03-21 13:50 daniruiz Resolution open => no change required