Can’t find bluefin-dx-nvidia iso image on projectbluefin website. I mean old nvidia kernel module (closed source). Is it obsolete?
you can get it by editing the download url here: https://download.projectbluefin.io/bluefin-dx-nvidia-stable.iso
As to its support status however I have no idea.
Yes we’ll only be making open ISOs from now on, but will continue to make the closed images for a while to support people with existing installations.
What does it mean ? will we still be able to play the latest games with the open ISOs or should the gamers rebase to Bazzite instead ? what changes for the user between the closed and open source Nvidia driver ?
(Ignore the installation instructions there)
It depends on your hardware, anything older than a 16xx series will need to stay on the closed drivers. We won’t make ISOs for those, but we’ll keep making images for people who have those. That means we’ll support existing installations but people with older hardware will not be able to use our images with the nvidia drivers.
This is an nvidia change not something we’re doing, bazzite and aurora will also only have open ISOs moving forward.
For people who are on closed drivers with newer kit (RTX cards), we’ll rebase you to the open drivers at some point in the future after we get more testing done, etc.
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Thank you, so in the end it will not make any difference for the user, it looks like everything will work the same, isn’t it ?
Yeah, unless you’re stuck on old hardware, but hopefully we can keep the builds going for as long as we can for those folks.
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I do think if you have a card which doesn’t support the open drivers you can just install from a regular ISO and rebase to -nvidia
Should work fine, it should use the nouvea or whatever its called driver and then you can rebase to the -nvidia image
Is there an easy way, like a ujust command to switch over to the closed nvidia driver?
I’m on a Dell Precision 5530, with either the NVIDIA Quadro P1000 or NVIDIA Quadro P2000, so I guess it’s older than the open supports. So after booting up, the fans go off non-stop full blast at the highest level until I’m able to rebase.
Edit:
Okay, I found an older nvidia image.
I guess i can use this to install and then update. https://projectbluefin.dev/bluefin-nvidia-stable.iso
You can just rebase to the closed image as they are still built
sudo bootc switch --enforce-container-sigpolicy ghcr.io/ublue-os/bluefin-nvidia:<your stream>
Sorry, but I don’t get it. Why not to build iso for nvidia closed source? (but supporting images through). Economy of resources or what?
We’re not going to onboard people to a dead end just to tell them that we’re dropping support 6 months later, better to tell you up front before installation.
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