Comment 2 for bug 1797791
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| Jack Howarth (jwhowarth) wrote Re: nvidia-340 installation issues need to be resolved and the package marked as 'tested' | #2 |
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I believe that I have identified why the newer nvidia drivers which depend on the new nvidia_drm kernel module fail on Mac hardware. That new module depends on the ipmi modules. On Mac hardware, unsurprisingly, the ipmi_si module fails to load and the ipmi device is not created. Motherboards with issues supporting on the PC probably explain the similar errors reported at...
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So Ubuntu should definitely hold onto the nvidia-340 package as long as possible to support that hardware.