Help Building xxxxxxxx-dx-nvidia Custom Legacy Image for Now

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Hello,
I’ve been specifically using the auroa-dx-nvidia images since the beginning when it first came out under the uBlue umbrella due to my older Nvidia card. Since those images are no longer being built I guess I have to build my own for the time being until I figure something else out. I’ve never had a need to build a custom image so can someone help me on what to do to build/integrate the Nvidia legacy proprietary drivers just as they originally were?

Also, I’m currently using the 20251014 image because of a bug in Dolphin 25.08.2 where remote shares give an Access denied, so is there also a way I can clone that image (ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx-nvidia:stable-daily-42.20251014) to my own repo as is since the images are only retained for a period of time I can at least have one to pull off of in the future.

I figured this would also be helpful for others in the same position so I was trying to somewhat generalize it instead of just being Aurora specific.

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Apparently the legacy driver can’t be built with the latest kernel. Fedora is too leading edge, I guess if you have older hardware and want to keep using nvidia discrete graphics, you’ll need to switch to some other distro.

See here:

https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/concerns-about-driver-updates-and-compatibility-as-support-ends/7947/2

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My understanding was that it was just stopped because 43 was coming out, I know Nvidia is dropping support for the legacy drivers but I don’t think it has happened yet. I’ve been running the stable version lately which is the uCore kernel so I’m not sure what kernel is being used now on 43 with the stable version.

I’d like to just know how to build it to see if it’s working, even if it’s considered at GTS version.

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For Aurora (and Bluefin), we won’t be building the old nvidia driver images anymore. Those have been shutted down and new versions won’t be built.

There is some planning on providing the availability possibly to the image-template. But currently I don’t know any easy way to get those drivers built.

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Bazzite just announced it will continue to support old nvidia cards for 3 more years. Bluefin and Aurora users can migrate to Bazzite if they want the LTS driver.