Branch 430 does not support K1100M

[ArchPhoenix team]

Branch 430 does not support K1100M, yet it is proposed as an update to branch 418 users with an nVidia K1100M GPU.

Please see supported devices for 430 branch here
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/149138/en-us

and 418 branch here
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/149219/en-us

It is not possible to downgrade to 418 because the ppa package was replaced by a "transition layer" to branch 430.

No changelog was presented by synaptic prior to upgrade to inform user that the nVidia K1100M support was dropped.

$ apt-cache showpkg nvidia-driver-418
Package: nvidia-driver-418
Versions:
430.40-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_graphics-drivers_ppa_ubuntu_dists_bionic_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
 Description Language:
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_graphics-drivers_ppa_ubuntu_dists_bionic_main_binary-amd64_Packages
                  MD5: 4827e73f0efd6022196ef03ec384d854
 Description Language: en
                 File: /var/lib/apt/lists/ppa.launchpad.net_graphics-drivers_ppa_ubuntu_dists_bionic_main_i18n_Translation-en
                  MD5: 4827e73f0efd6022196ef03ec384d854

Reverse Depends:
Dependencies:
430.40-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1 - nvidia-driver-430 (0 (null))
Provides:
430.40-0ubuntu0~gpu18.04.1 -
Reverse Provides:

[Douglas Russell (dpwrussell)]

Perhaps even more problematic is that the .430 driver does not have support for the new T4 cards, whereas .418 does.

I am not an expert on Nvidia drivers, but it is very surprising to me that the older version of the driver has support for a new piece of hardware where the new driver does not, but either way, it would be very useful to be able to install actual .418 driver on Ubuntu 18.04.

[ArchPhoenix team (archphoenix)]

Any news on rolling back 418 to it's own branch ? There are updates to the 418 branch that were never released by the ppa :

The PPA had the 418.56, while nVidia released the 418.88 version.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[ArchPhoenix team (archphoenix)]

Any news on rolling back 418 to it's own branch ? There are updates to the 418 branch that were never released by the ppa :

The PPA had the 418.56, while nVidia released the 418.113 version.
Currently no 418 package exist in the ppa at all.

[ArchPhoenix team (archphoenix)]

Any news on rolling back 418 to it's own branch ? There are updates to the 418 branch that were never released by the ppa :

The PPA had the 418.56, while nVidia released the 418.113 version.
Currently no 418 package exist in the ppa at all.

Affects LTS version from 18.04 to 22.04.