Solved nVidia driver versions

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VulcanRidr

I have a desktop system, i7-6850k with an nVidia RTX-3060Ti. I upgraded to it in Jan 2023 from a GTX-780Ti. It is running 13.2p1, and is on the latest repo.

So I am using the nvidia-driver package, specifically, nvidia-driver-470-470.161.03, which, according to freshports, was last updated 2023-02-28.

Since I am on the latest repo, I see nvidia-driver-535.54.03, however it is not being installed. Why is that? And would it break the system to do a pkg install nvidia-driver-535.54.03? Something odd I notice is that there is a single version of the nvidia-settings, and that is version 470.86_1, and one version of nvidia-xconfig, which is 525.116.04. Are either of these keeping the nvidia-driver package from updating? And will it break my system to try to upgrade to it? Is the upgrade worth it?

Thanks,
--vr
 
There shouldn't be any problem if you uninstall the old driver and do pkg install nvidia-driver without version numbers.

Because the 470 is comaptible with both your previous and current card you didn't had any problems when you made the change.
 
VucanRidr said:
Since I am on the latest repo, I see nvidia-driver-535.54.03, however it is not being installed. Why is that?
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Because the -470 is part of the package/port name. Thus these are essentially two different packages. From the package/port system's perspective any way.
 
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