restive sandal
I'm trying to upgrade my 6.14 kernel to 6.17, I'm reading online that I should have my nvidia drivers at least upgraded to 580.x for the switch because of known bugs related to using 570.x with 6.17, whenever I try to upgrade my drivers using linux mint's onboard driver manager I get this error "The following packages have unmet dependencies: libxcb-dri2-0: Depends: libxcb1 but it is not going to be installed" How do i resolve this error? My goal is to upgrade to 6.17
cold snow
Open the terminal (CTRL + ALT + T)
sudo apt install nvidia-driver-590
Then reboot
restive sandal
Do i need to specify open drivers?
cold snow
Nope. If you're already using 570, then doing this is just replacing it with 590.
cold snow
No, you don't need to specify open. The command I posted is literally the same thing as the top recommended option
restive sandal
Ok, thanks!
cold snow
As for why the driver manager crashes, you can try
sudo apt update
sudo apt upgrade -y
sudo apt --fix-broken install
The first one updates your stuff, the second one upgrades it, the last one scans for missing/corrupt files (similar to window's sfc scannow)
restive sandal
Ok i'll probably give this a go tomorrow morning, I dont have the time to trouble shoot if any serious errors happen tonight
Thanks for your help!
cold snow
No worries. Those 3 commands are fairly safe and fool proof. About as far from system crashing as you can get from doing anything in the terminal! Good luck!
Those 3 would probably take less than 5 minutes to fully complete, assuming you're not in the middle of the sarhra desert using wifi from a camel
restive sandal
I use steam flatpak and other flatpaks as well, when I asked AI about this earlier it said the error code im recieving is related to 32bit dependencies being present alongside 64bit dependencies and for whatever reason linux mint driver manager can't figure out which one to upgrade, idk lol.
cold snow
AI is garbage at this stuff, don't even bother
restive sandal
Ya you're probably right, AI has definitely resulted in me getting many things in my PC fugged up
damn
you enboldened me to try those cmds, still getting the same error though
I think it might be right in this instance, the i386 is the 32bit suffix yeah? shouldnt my driver be the AMD64 ?
im so scared lol
i just ran the install cmd for nvidia 590 drivers
about to reboot.... wish me luck!
dudeeee. nearly shit myself
i DID IT!! i'm on nvidia drivers 590! Thank you for encouraging me to try it
now I just have to update the kernel itself to 6.17
Dudeeeeeee.... I made it....
Thanks for all your help, i just needed the encouragement to pull the trigger, i'm now on driver 590 with kernel 6.17. I believe I will see significant performance boosts from both my CPU and GPU now.
