New sanity check for NVIDIA: propagation

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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As stated in the neo changelog: “Apps UpdateInTerminal , eos-update-notifier and welcome include this update check.”

Question: do I have to re-install my system or is this sanity check propagated automatically to these Apps?

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You don’t need to reinstall.

If you have those applications installed, they will get updated with your normal updates.

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That said, should this procedure not include the sanity check rather than the Apps?

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I believe they are checks related to updates.

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OK, so if not using these Apps, I might miss and run into e.g. most recent problems?

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The EOS apps like UpdateInTerminal do no additional checks if you are running the nvidia-dkms driver package.

But if you are using drivers packages like

  • nvidia (with kernel linux)
  • nvidia-lts (with kernel linux-lts)

then those additional checks will be performed.

The recommended Nvidia driver package is nvidia-dkms because it has proven to be less error prone regarding package updates.

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