Best way to pin Nvidia drivers to specific version
# questionsj
j0ner
08/24/2025, 3:09 PMHello, the latest nvidia drivers make my entire desktop crash when closing GTK apps, and I want to pin it to the previous version. What would be the simplest / recommended way to do this (I still want to receive updates for other things)?
j0ner
08/24/2025, 3:59 PMdecided to just set the
silverblue-nvidiarecipe.ymls
Synbi
08/25/2025, 12:58 AMIirc the ublue images got around the issue by forcing GTK apps to render with opengl, maybe try that?
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j0ner
08/25/2025, 12:00 PMi think tried that and it still crashed
j0ner
08/25/2025, 12:00 PMill just wait for the new driver release and keep the image version pinned
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xyny
08/27/2025, 2:09 PMthe nvidia drivers in your image probably come from ublue, and those drivers probably come from negativo or rpmfusion, neither of which support installing most older releases of drivers AFAIK
xyny
08/27/2025, 2:10 PMyou could pin your base image to a specific date i guess, but that would also mean not getting other updates
xyny
08/27/2025, 2:10 PMseems like that's what you ended up doing, smort smort
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j0ner
08/27/2025, 7:24 PMYeah I couldn’t find any details on getting previous stuff from rpm fushion
j0ner
08/27/2025, 7:25 PMIt’s just crazy that Nvidia won’t release a patch
j0ner
08/27/2025, 7:26 PMLike they fixed it but it missed the release window
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Synbi
09/02/2025, 8:19 PMhttps://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/253003/ once this makes it onto negativo you should be good
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j0ner
09/03/2025, 1:46 AMlets go finally
j0ner
09/03/2025, 1:46 AMonly took them like 3 weeks to fix a major issue 🤯
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xyny
09/07/2025, 2:04 PMyeahhh
xyny
09/07/2025, 2:04 PMi've been having this issue too
xyny
09/07/2025, 2:04 PMmakes me want to avoid nvidia altogether in the future
xyny
09/07/2025, 2:05 PMtook a while to even realize that it was a GPU issue
xyny
09/07/2025, 2:05 PMi just kept having Nautilus crash on me, and force quitting it shut down the whole desktop 😭