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NVIDIA 560.31.02 Linux Driver Delivers Various Fixes
Following last month's NVIDIA 560 Linux driver beta release where the open GPU kernel modules are used by default with Turing GPUs and newer, the NVIDIA 560.31.02 Linux driver has debuted today in stable form for the R560 series.
The NVIDIA 560 beta driver last month brought the open GPU kernel modules being used by default, VRR support for notebooks on the open kernel modules, various new EGL extensions for XWayland use, a PipeWire backend for NvFBC, and various other fixes -- including Wayland fixes. - Fixed a race condition involving modeset ownership which could lead to flip event timeout errors when enabling the 'fbdev' kernel module parameter in nvidia-drm. As shown in recent testing, the NVIDIA open kernel modules perform at parity to the prior closed-source components.
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