nvidia-dkms-390: better support for kernel 6.2

[Andrea Righi]

[Impact]

Instead of disabling acpi support completely with nvidia-dkms-390, we should try instead to see if it's possible to support it somehow.

[Fix]

This patch looks promising (even if it says huge hack in the comments...):
https://gitlab.com/herecura/packages/nvidia-390xx-dkms/-/blob/780a3c8b159f24c14e6c1cb35fd747338aefea39/kernel-6.2.patch

Apply this patch and drop any 6.0 and 6.2 related patches.

[Regression potential]

With this patch nvidia-dkms-390 should build against 6.2 kernels without disabling any feature, but users of this driver may experience kernel bugs / crashes. However, the nvidia 390 driver is unmaintained so we should start to consider phasing it out.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 - 390.157-0ubuntu6

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 (390.157-0ubuntu6) mantic; urgency=medium

  [ Andrea Righi ]
  * debian/templates/dkms_nvidia.conf.in,
    debian/dkms_nvidia/patches/disable-acpi-support-in-linux-6.0.patch,
    debian/dkms_nvidia/patches/buildfix_kernel_6.2.patch:
    - Better support for linux 6.2 (LP: #2019869).

  [ Paolo Pisati ]
  * debian/templates/dkms_nvidia.conf.in,
    debian/dkms_nvidia/patches/buildfix_kernel_6.3.patch:
    - Support linux 6.3 ABI (LP: #2019979).

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Thu, 18 May 2023 10:42:02 +0000

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andrea Righi (arighi)]

Wrong debdiff, ignore this.

[Andrea Righi (arighi)]

Here's a new one cleaned up properly for lunar, ignore comment #5.

[Andrea Righi (arighi)]

And here's the debdiff for jammy. Same fix.

[zniavre (zniavre2048-gmail)]

does the patch will come to lunar please ? what i understand is only supplied for mantic ?

[Andrea Righi (arighi)]

@zniavre in comment #6 I posted a patch for lunar, so it'll be applied also there at some point.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello Andrea, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 into jammy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/390.157-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-jammy to verification-done-jammy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-jammy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

Hello Andrea, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 into lunar-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-390/390.157-0ubuntu5.23.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-lunar to verification-done-lunar. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-lunar. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Bojan Bogojevic (bojan023)]

I've been able to install the latest package from lunar-proposed on my HP Elitebook 8570W. Ubuntu boots but as with the previous version, no GUI but just a black screen with white blinking underscore. Only fix is to change to another tty and deinstall. I have searched in dmesg for any errors but there were none. What logs are of interest to share?

[ab (avboag)]

I have an old desktop with a nvidia GT 610. Unfortunately, using the package from lunar-proposed changed nothing.

[Jakka Prihatna (jprihatna)]

Asus N46VM with nvidia GT 630M here.

I can confirm too, the package nvidia-driver-390 version 390.157-0ubuntu5.23.04.1 does not fix anything on my Ubuntu 23.04 (Kernel 6.2.0-20).

Same with @bojan023, after installing the package and rebooting, I'm left with black screen just after the boot logo is shown. I had to revert back to using nouveau to be able to log to GUI.

[Sam Colegrove (colegrove479)]

I can install nvidia-390 and it works on my Kubuntu 23.10 laptop monitor, however the external monitor is not detected and does not work. If I remove Nvidia 390 as well a bumblebee-NVIDIA, the external monitor works without a problem.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 - 390.157-0ubuntu0.22.04.2

---------------
nvidia-graphics-drivers-390 (390.157-0ubuntu0.22.04.2) jammy; urgency=medium

  * debian/dkms_nvidia.conf,
    debian/templates/dkms_nvidia.conf.in,
    debian/dkms_nvidia/patches/buildfix_kernel_6.2.patch:
    - Better support for linux 6.2 (LP: #2019869)

 -- Andrea Righi <email address hidden> Thu, 25 May 2023 12:36:51 +0000

[Liam Proven (lproven)]

Still happening for me on both 23.10 (which won't detect my GF199 GPU at all and has no nVidia utils package) and a black screen after the last kernel update on 22.04.

[Louis (darkenlx)]

does not install 22.04 kernel 6.5.0-14-generic
make.log attatched

[Louis (darkenlx)]

crash log attached