SRU request: Include the 430 driver in Ubuntu 18.04

[Cyrus Lien]

SRU Request:

[Impact]
The nvidia packages in Ubuntu 18.04 do not support recent NVIDIA GPUs. ([10de:2191][10de:1f91][10de:1c91]

[Test Case]
1) Enable the bionic-proposed repository, and install the nvidia-430 package

2) Restart and see if the system boots correctly. If unsure, please attach your /var/log/gpu-manager.log and /var/log/Xorg.0.log

[Regression Potential]
Low, the packages are already in Eoan.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Could we maybe get some certification automated testing done on the packages as part of the validation? Are there any tests they could do?

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Cyrus, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-430/430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 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 and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. 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.

[Cyrus Lien (cyruslien)]

Got dependency problem with 18.04 HWE stack.

$ sudo dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-430_430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 135894 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-430_430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-430 (430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) over (430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-430:
 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-430 depends on xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.19.6-1ubuntu2~); however:
  Package xserver-xorg-core is not installed.
  Version of xserver-xorg-core on system, provided by xserver-xorg-core-hwe-18.04:amd64, is <none>.

dpkg: error processing package xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-430 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 xserver-xorg-video-nvidia-430

[Cyrus Lien (cyruslien)]

Also, 71-nvidia.rules need additional rule or it will stuck at gdm3 login window.

Compare to nvidia-kernel-common-430 (430.26-0ubuntu0~gpu18.10.1) from ppa:graphics-drivers/ppa.

diff a/lib/udev/rules.d/71-nvidia.rules b/lib/udev/rules.d/71-nvidia.rules
27,29d26
< # This will create the device nvidia device nodes
< ACTION=="add" DEVPATH=="/module/nvidia" SUBSYSTEM=="module" RUN+="/usr/bin/nvidia-smi"
<

[Alex Tu (alextu)]

for the #4 , the merge patch should be included in next proposed driver for testing.
https://github.com/tseliot/nvidia-graphics-drivers/pull/34

[Alberto Milone (albertomilone)]

Ok, I have just uploaded nvidia-graphics-drivers-430_430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, which backports the changes to the udev rules from Eoan, and which adds support for xserver-xorg-core-hwe-18.04.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Cyrus, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-430/430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.2 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 and change the tag from verification-needed-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. 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.

[Cyrus Lien (cyruslien)]

Tried version 430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.2, it works great.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 - 430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.2

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nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 (430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.2) bionic; urgency=medium

  [ Alberto Milone ]
  * debian/rules.defs:
    - Add alternate dependency on xserver-xorg-core-hwe-18.04.
      This fixes a compatibility issue with the hwe stack (LP: #1834603).

  [ Kai-Heng Feng ]
  * debian/71-nvidia.rules:
    - Make sure each rule is comma seperated.
    - Use DEVPATH=="/bus/pci/drivers/nvidia", which is added after nvidia
      driver probes and binds to the device, to prevent any race condition.
      (LP: #1834603).
    - Use TAG+="systemd" and ENV{SYSTEMD_WANTS} to let systemd manage the
      service.
  * debian/templates/nvidia-compute-utils-flavour.nvidia-persistenced.service.in:
    - Now systemd knows the persistenced service depends on
      sys-bus-pci-drivers-nvidia.device, we can use StopWhenUnneeded=true to
      let systemd stop the service once sys-bus-pci-drivers-nvidia.device
      disappears.

nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 (430.26-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium

  * Initial release (LP: #1834603):
    - Added support for the following GPUs:
        Quadro P520
        Quadro RTX 3000
        Quadro T1000
        Quadro T2000
    - Fixed a bug, introduced in 415.13, that caused audio over
      DisplayPort to not work in some configurations.
  * debian/templates/control.in:
    - Specify multiarch for transitional packages.
    - Add transitional packages for 418.
    - Add dependency on libnvidia-cfg1-#FLAVOUR# to nvidia-headless-no-dkms-#FLAVOUR#
      nvidia-persistenced depends on it.
  * debian/71-nvidia.rules:
    - Remove nvidia-smi from run list.
      nvidia-smi was previously used for creating device nodes when nvidia
      kernel module is being loaded. This is no longer mandatory as the device
      nodes (nvidia0 & nvidiactl) will be created by any other process linking
      to libnvidia-ml.so, e.g. nvidia-settings, when necessary.

 -- Alberto Milone <email address hidden> Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:11:02 +0200

[Andy Whitcroft (apw)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for nvidia-graphics-drivers-430 has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.