NVIDIA 550.135 Graphics Driver Released with Better Linux Kernel 6.11 Support
This release also improves the build process of the NVIDIA kernel module and supports recent versions of the Debian GNU/Linux operating system.
NVIDIA released today the NVIDIA 550.135 graphics driver as the latest “Production Branch” version for users who want to stay on the stable side of things and not use the NVIDIA 560 “New Feature Branch” series.
NVIDIA 550.135 is a small update that only improves support for distribution running the Linux 6.11 kernel series, which renamed the drm_fbdev_generic function to drm_fbdev_ttm, by using drm_fbdev_ttm when present to keep supporting direct framebuffer access on Wayland compositors to present content on newer kernels.
This release also adds support for enumerating modes on hotplug events through the DRM fbdev API to ensure the NVIDIA graphics driver can compile with newer Linux kernels that remove the output_poll_changed function from struct drm_mode_config_funcs.
Also for Linux systems, the NVIDIA 550.135 driver updates the build process of the NVIDIA kernel module to use the CONFIG_CC_VERSION_TEXT environment variable from the Linux kernel’s Kconfig to detect the compiler used to build the kernel. NVIDIA says that this change “may help select the correct compiler on Linux systems where the kernel was built with a compiler other than the default one.”
