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Re:Linux 5.10 by gpm on Sunday December 13, 2020 @10:59PM (#25413395)
> Its impossible to use the nvidia proprietary drivers on a prerelease kernel

I managed to on 5.10-rc6? Had to upgrade to the "shortlived" version of the driver, but that went smoothly.

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Re:Linux 5.10 by SulfurHexaFluri on Sunday December 13, 2020 @11:42PM (#25413641)
I think it depends on how different the kernel is. At the time I did it, nvidia had no published drivers that were compatible with the linux RC
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Re:Linux 5.10 by gpm on Monday December 14, 2020 @12:34AM (#25413916)
That seems likely and would make sense.
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