{"id":3406,"date":"2026-01-14T01:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3406"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T09:14:50","slug":"nvidia-new-580-xx-driver-ok-with-kernel-6-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/?p=3406","title":{"rendered":"NVIDIA – New 580.xx driver OK with Kernel 6.19.."},"content":{"rendered":"

NVIDIA have just released a new version of the 580.xx driver – 580.126.09<\/strong> – and details etc. are here:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/drivers\/details\/261243\/<\/a>
\nThis now compiles\/loads\/runs OK with Kernel 6.19 (tested with 6.19-rc5<\/strong>):<\/p>\n

…………………….<\/span><\/strong>
\n CC [M] .module-common.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nLD [M] nvidia.ko<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] nvidia-uvm.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nLD [M] nvidia-uvm.ko<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] nvidia-modeset.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nLD [M] nvidia-modeset.ko<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] nvidia-drm.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nLD [M] nvidia-drm.ko<\/span><\/strong>
\nCC [M] nvidia-peermem.mod.o<\/span><\/strong>
\nLD [M] nvidia-peermem.ko<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[2]: Leaving directory ‘\/home\/rgadsdon\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-580.126.09\/kernel’<\/span><\/strong>
\nmake[1]: Leaving directory ‘\/usr\/src\/linux-6.19-rc5’<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

# nvidia-smi<\/span><\/strong>
\nWed Jan 14 00:38:56 2026<\/span><\/strong>
\n+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+<\/span><\/strong>
\n| NVIDIA-SMI 580.126.09 Driver Version: 580.126.09 CUDA Version: 13.0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0|<\/span><\/strong>
\n+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+<\/span><\/strong>
\n| GPU Name Persistence-M\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 |<\/span><\/strong>
\n| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage\/Cap | Memory-Usage\u00a0 | GPU-Util Compute M.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0|<\/span><\/strong>
\n|\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0| MIG M.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 |<\/span><\/strong>
\n|=========================================+========================+======================|<\/span><\/strong>
\n| 0 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M Off | 00000000:01:00.0 On | N\/A\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0|<\/span><\/strong>
\n| N\/A 37C P0 25W \/ 1000W\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 | 16MiB \/ 8192MiB\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0| 0% Default\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 |<\/span><\/strong>
\n|\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0| N\/A\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0|<\/span><\/strong>
\n+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+<\/span><\/strong><\/code><\/p>\n

So, GTX cards are still supported – for the time being…\u00a0 \u00a0During previous testing, I had noticed that warning\/error messages were already referring to the 580 series of drivers as ‘legacy’…
\nIt should be noted that the older 470 series ‘legacy’ driver was last updated in June 2024…\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0I have also found the old Nouveau driver to be of unpredictable quality, and the new Nova driver does not support the ‘old’ GTX cards..
\nI have moved almost all my GTX systems to RTX now, apart from the HP8770W which still has a GTX980M…\u00a0 \u00a0Hardware compatibility is an issue here, but there do seem to be some MXM 3.0b RTX3000 cards available, but – so far – untested…?\u00a0 \u00a0It might well be less of a problem to just get a newer RTX-equipped laptop, but I see this as a challenge…<\/p>\n

Robert Gadsdon.\u00a0 \u00a0January 13th 2026..<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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NVIDIA have just released a new version of the 580.xx driver – 580.126.09 – and details etc. are here:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/drivers\/details\/261243\/ This now compiles\/loads\/runs OK with Kernel 6.19 (tested with 6.19-rc5): ……………………. CC [M] .module-common.o LD [M] nvidia.ko CC [M] nvidia-uvm.mod.o LD [M] nvidia-uvm.ko CC [M] nvidia-modeset.mod.o LD [M] nvidia-modeset.ko CC [M] nvidia-drm.mod.o LD [M] nvidia-drm.ko CC [M] …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,15,18,19],"tags":[2802,277,2796,1175],"class_list":["post-3406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-compilation","category-kernel","category-linux-2","category-nvidia","category-opinion","tag-580-126-09","tag-nvidia-2","tag-ok-with-kernel-6-19","tag-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3406"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3413,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3406\/revisions\/3413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}