ABI version 20.0 issues

StephenAdler · November 10, 2015, 4:21am

…
[ 53.241] ================ WARNING WARNING WARNING WARNING ================
[ 53.241] This server has a video driver ABI version of 20.0 that is not
supported by this NVIDIA driver. Please check
http://www.nvidia.com/ for driver updates or downgrade to an X
server with a supported driver ABI.
[ 53.241] =================================================================
[ 53.241] (EE) NVIDIA: Use the -ignoreABI option to override this check.
[ 53.241] (II) UnloadModule: “nvidia”
[ 53.241] (II) Unloading nvidias
[ 53.241] (EE) Failed to load module “nvidia” (module requirement mismatch, 0)
…

The above error says it all. I searched the form for any news on this issue, which I stumbled into when I upgraded to fedora 23. The only work around is to downgrade to Xorg 1.17 from 1.18 and wait for the nvidia developers to release a new driver. Can anyone at nvidia shed light on how long the wait will be for the new driver to be released?

Thanks.

aplattner · November 10, 2015, 6:09am

Support for the new ABI will be in the next round of releases from the various release branches. I can’t comment on the timeframe for when each driver will be released, though. I apologize for the delay in getting support for the new server ready.

StephenAdler · November 10, 2015, 7:10pm

Thanks for the quick replay Aaron. There’s a whole community of linux users out there chopping at the bit for the next release.

Cheers.

matstegner · November 16, 2015, 5:36pm

Drivers 352.63, 340.96 and 304.131 have been released which all support X.org 1.18.

LinLo · November 16, 2015, 6:30pm

Hello, I can’t wait for Xorg1.18 358.XX branch release, with g-sync issues fixed.
Thank you NVIDIA for your reactivity.

hussam · November 19, 2015, 4:31pm

Congrats!
We’ll just stay on xorg-server 1.17.4 till then :)

blackout24 · November 20, 2015, 11:54am

Crap, who’s going to release our shiny Vulkan drivers this year?

blablo · November 20, 2015, 3:55pm

NVIDIA 358.16 is out

NVIDIA 358.16 - Release Highlights:

Fixed a regression, introduced in 358.09, that caused incorrect rendering of OpenGL stereo applications in combination with Quadro Sync on certain GPUs.
Fixed a regression, introduced in 358.09, that caused OpenGL stereo applications to hang when SLI AFR, SFR, or SLIAA modes were enabled.
Fixed a regression, introduced in 358.09, that caused the system to hang while launching OpenGL applications when some SLI Mosaic topologies were in use.
Fixed a bug that could cause some G-SYNC monitors to flicker on Kepler-based GPUs when running at low frame rates.
Fixed a regression that could cause OpenGL or VDPAU applications to hang in Xinerama layouts which include multiple X screens that are driven by the same GPU.
Added a fallback to allow GLX to function when UNIX domain socket communication is blocked between NVIDIA client-side GLX and NVIDIA server-side GLX. For example, the default SELinux policy on Fedora 22 prevents the NVIDIA 358.09 GLX driver from working in GDM3:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271401

Fixed a bug that could cause nvidia-installer to crash when installing from a driver package that has had precompiled kernel interfaces added to it (e.g., by using the "--add-this-kernel" option).
Fixed a regression from 358.09 that caused G-SYNC monitors configured to use 3D Vision stereo to go blank and report an unsupported signal.
Fixed a regression from 358.09 that caused OpenGL applications that failed to negotiate permission to perform glXSwapBuffers via flipping to stop updating the screen.  This was triggered on Fedora 22 where the SELinux system policy prevents gnome-shell from communicating with the X server.

Now, OpenGL applications that fail to negotiate flipping will fall back to glXSwapBuffers via blitting.

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1271401 for more details.

Fixed a regression that reduced OpenGL performance on headless X server configurations.
Fixed a memory leak that occurred after destroying a GLXWindow which still has the current context attached to it.
Fixed a bug which caused EGL pbuffers to be created with both a front and back buffer, instead of a back buffer only, as is required for EGL.
Added a new kernel module, nvidia-modeset.ko.  This new driver component works in conjunction with the nvidia.ko kernel module to program the display engine of the GPU.

nvidia-modeset.ko does not provide any new user-visible functionality or interfaces to third party applications.  However, in a later release, nvidia-modeset.ko will be used as a basis for the modesetting interface provided by the kernel's direct rendering manager (DRM).

Reduced flickering and delays when transitioning into or out of G-SYNC mode.  As part of this change, monitors that have G-SYNC indicators in their on-screen displays will now always report that they are in G-SYNC mode.  The OpenGL G-SYNC visual indicator can be enabled in nvidia-settings to determine when G-SYNC is actually being used.
GLX protocol for the following OpenGL extension from OpenGL 3.0 has been promoted from unofficial to ARB approved official status:

GL_EXT_draw_buffers2

GLX protocol for the following OpenGL 3.0 commands:

BindBufferRangeNV
BindBufferBaseNV
BeginTransformFeedbackNV
EndTransformFeedbackNV
GetTransformFeedbackVaryingEXT
TransformFeedbackVaryingsEXT
which are part of the following extensions:

GL_NV_transform_feedback
GL_EXT_transform_feedback

has been promoted from unofficial to ARB approved official status.

With the above changes, GLX protocol for OpenGL 3.0 has been promoted from unofficial to ARB approved official status.

Added a new system memory allocation mechanism for large allocations in the OpenGL driver.  This mechanism allows unmapping the allocation from the process when it is not in use, making more virtual address space available to the application.  It is enabled by default on 32 bit OpenGL applications with Linux 3.11+ and glibc 2.19+.  Memory allocated this way will consume space in /dev/shm. Setting the environment variable __GL_DevShmPageableAllocations to 2 will disable this feature
Added support for OpenGL 4.3.
Added support for X.Org xserver ABI 20 (xorg-server 1.18).

Knut49 · November 20, 2015, 7:42pm

Can you please add a download link?

blablo · November 20, 2015, 7:53pm

http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/358.16/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-358.16.run
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/358.16/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-358.16-no-compat32.run
http://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/358.16/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-358.16.run

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/