Just to make everyone clear, what's reported in the post is not the actual driver version number. That is just what the Boinc client reports since the client is unable to report Nvidia driver version numbers past two decimal units. All drivers with xxx.xxx format will report as xxx.99

To see the real version number use the Nvidia software or dmesg or journal logs to find the correct and full version number.

Thanks for pointing that out. I was unaware of this flaw in the client. Do you know if all clients do this, or just the older ones?

In Windows i've only ever seen the driver expressed as xxx.xx
I've never seen more than 2 digits after the .



EDIT- I'm running v566.36
In Device manager, the driver version is listed as 32.0.15.6636, but it's always been referred to in the xxx.xx format (Nvidia settings, GPU-Z shows the full number, then in brackets (xxx.xx).

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Grant
Darwin NT, Australia.

It is in all versions for Linux clients. Nvidia never releases Windows drivers beyond .99 versions restricting to XXX.xx format. But for Linux drivers, they allow XXX.xxx versioning. This is what broke the client for server code that wouldn't recognize more than two decimal digits in the driver version number and then wouldn't send work to clients because it would not recognize an installed Nvidia driver.

You can see the original https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3893 issue raised. Decision was made to just truncate any driver version number over two decimal digits to .99 since the proper and correct fix would entail a lot of work in both the client and server software stacks.

The issue was just marked as a bug, (kludge fix) and closed. https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/3897/files

It is in all versions for Linux clients. Nvidia never releases Windows drivers beyond .99 versions restricting to XXX.xx format. But for Linux drivers, they allow XXX.xxx versioning. This is what broke the client for server code that wouldn't recognize more than two decimal digits in the driver version number and then wouldn't send work to clients because it would not recognize an installed Nvidia driver.

You can see the original https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/issues/3893 issue raised. Decision was made to just truncate any driver version number over two decimal digits to .99 since the proper and correct fix would entail a lot of work in both the client and server software stacks.

The issue was just marked as a bug, (kludge fix) and closed. https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/pull/3897/files

Thanks for the explanation. I was unaware of this.

To summarize, if you are having a problem with a 5000 series GPU on linux, try the following driver: 575.64

We know that it works on some hosts.

I reached my goal at another project and updated the driver for the 5080. Ran into the same issue as getting a driver to work the first time with the 5080 and Ubuntu 24. The driver would install OK but the 5080 would not be recognized by nvidia-smi or the BOINC client. The open driver works. Posting to maybe help another

sudo apt install nvidia-driver-580-open