Getting specific nvidia driver version on f42 (rpmfusion)

Hello.

Recently driver 575.57.08 was released on RPMFusion (which I am very thankful for making available), however I was previously using driver 575.51.something (beta driver) through f43 rpmfusion release.

I was wondering if it would be possible to acquire rpm files for that driver, as in my experience it was way more stable than the “stable” 575.57 driver? Or just make them available to install through normal rpmfusion?

Basically the new driver has some sort of really bad hdmi related regression which causes applications to fail to start or not play sound, if, and only if, the system is booted with both DP and HDMI connected, and DP disabled (in mutter), with HDMI being the only output. Just completely fails. This is my setup (using HDMI to play games on TV, using DP only when not using it), which now requires me to switch my PC on with DP only, then connect HDMI.
This did not occur using the beta and otherwise it seems there are really no differences.

I would be extremely grateful should said driver version become installable in f42 with specific version constraints. It should not affect most users, as the update process should still pull only the newest driver (575.57)

Thank you, and sorry for reaching out through here, I have no idea how to reach out to the RPMFusion team.

You will need to manually fetch them from (koji will garbage collect them soon as they have no tags)

We can’t provide more than one nvidia version due to the repo tools used to generate the repo.

Add your feedback to 575 release feedback & discussion - Linux - NVIDIA Developer Forums

I have already added my feedback to the thread, I was not aware however I could actually grab these packages back, as when I tried to rollback everything failed because no candidates were found.

I take it I should just manually grab files from here and install them via dnf? I’m not really sure exactly how to go about it…

Update: I found all the matching packages in Koji, same to what I had installed, but in the version I wanted and managed to update it.

Thanks for the help

Is this possible to change?
It would be much easier to undo DNF transactions and bisect issues if RPM Fusion provided an updates-archive repo similar to Fedora.

We don’t have enough freespace available to do it.

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