[Solved] Plasmashell leaks with nvidia-470.62.13

Perfect Gentleman · Veteran Joined: 18 May 2014 Posts: 1249

Is it okay or not?

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Fri Nov 26, 2021 9:43 am Post subject:

The GeForce GTX 650 seems supported by driver version 470.86.
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Perfect Gentleman · Veteran Joined: 18 May 2014 Posts: 1249

I know that.
I'm 'bout Plasmashell memory leaking with 470.62.13 but not with 470.86. With 470.86 GTX and Plasmashell both work fine.

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8936

Your first post doesn't really make clear what you want to tell us.

Ionen · Developer Joined: 06 Dec 2018 Posts: 2719

As the mask message for 470.62.13 explains, it's the experimental vulkan driver (0/vulkan slot) and it tend to lag behind bug fixes. It gets more frequent releases with some extra vulkan work but typically doesn't backport stuff from newer versions.

You should only use it if you want to test/develop latest vulkan features (most software do not even use these features yet, i.e. it's more aimed at software developers), if you want stability use the non-masked 470.86 (0/470 slot).

I barely test it myself too (about the only bug reports I'd care about regarding it is glaring packaging issues, if kde/plasma gets bugs with that driver they should feel free to close as invalid too

), it's only there for if really needed and shouldn't be unmasked+used just because it sounds nice.