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Support for nvidia drivers 390+ (470, 495, etc)

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ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux#8238 · opened 2021-11-16 by MOZGIII · updated 2021-11-16 · 1 comments · github
MMOZGIII 2021-11-16 github

As can be seen at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/, NVIDIA doesn't ship 32-bit builds anymore. Why does steam refuse to run if I don't have 32-bit video libs? Doesn't make sense. Am I supposed to use old drivers with steam?

Kkisak-valve maintainer 2021-11-16 github

Hello @MOZGIII, your claim that nVidia does not support 32 bit applications is factually wrong. nVidia has dropped support for 32 bit kernels, but does support 32 bit applications on 64 bit systems. Depending on how your distro packages the nVidia driver, the distro packaging may let you install the video driver's 64 bit userspace libraries without also requiring the driver's 32 bit counterpart.

For example, on an Ubuntu system with the nvidia 470 series video driver, the libnvidia-gl-470:i386 package contains the 32 bit userspace libraries for that series of driver, but nothing directly depends on it in the package manager's dependency tree and it can get missed.

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