From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.advocacy
At Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:56:29 +0000, L Thorpe <
lt666@sixsixsix.net> wrote:
The proprietary Nvidia drivers would, for me, fail to build with the open-source
variant. I had to rely on the proprietary stuff.
I posted several bug reports to the Nvidia forums but got no response.
However, as I was building the new kernel-6.18 I decided to give Nvidia another shot.
It worked! The Nvidia drivers actually built the open-source variant!
It seems that the problem is fixed!
I have a Turing GPU on my machines and this is very important as the open-source driver is recommended for Turing and beyond.
For kernel 6.18, stock NVIDIA 580.105.08 MIT/GPL driver doesn't
build correctly -- but can be made to work with a trivial patch,
which I've posted twice now.
NVIDIA 590.44.01 (the beta driver) builts against 6.18, but I
found it buggy for my setup. I haven't posted to the
developer forum yet. Meanwhile, I'm using 580.105.08 which is
rock-solid for my configuration.
(X11 forever! :) )
BTW, the bug I ran into with the beta driver is the window
in-focus intermittently...disappears. Yes, it blinks in- and
out-of-existance. This was true for chrome, balloon text from
a chrome element, and xfce4-terminal. It was "interesting"
using the terminal to remove the drivers so I'd have a clean
slate for re-installing NVIDIA 580.105.08 drivers.
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-v System76 Thelio Mega v1.1 x86_64 NVIDIA RTX 3090Ti 24G
OS: Linux 6.18.0 D: Mint 22.2 DE: Xfce 4.18
NVIDIA: 580.105.08 Mem: 258G
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