Ubuntu
nvidia-graphics-drivers-440 package

  1. Bug #1857271
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 1857271

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berglh (berglh) wrote : Re: Focal 440.44-0ubuntu1 PRIME Sync not working

@vanvugt I manually changed the PPA target to focal in the apt sources list file:

cat /etc/apt/sources.list.d/graphics-drivers-ubuntu-ppa-disco.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/graphics-drivers/ppa/ubuntu focal main

I was doing this because I'm running the latest mainline Ubuntu kernels as they have a bunch of driver fixes for my other devices. I also update the linux-firmware package to a similar level to match the current development distribution (i.e. focal). The focal packages are targeted at these kernel versions, so I try to keep the kernel, graphics drivers and linux-firmware packages in sync on my system for the expected performance.

My guess is the nvidia drivers will get backported once they're tested as working on the newer kernels for the latest/dev distributions.

I'm not an expert on this, just what I have come to understand, although it may be entirely correct.