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Tentative fix for NVIDIA 470.256.02 driver for Linux 6.17-rc1
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zakweb3 commented Feb 19, 2026 •
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Yeah I had a similar issue, went into a crazy rabbit whole, here is the solution to your problem:

  1. make sure you have the necessary packages
    sudo apt install -y pkg-config libglvnd-core-dev libglvnd-dev libegl1-mesa-dev
  2. check that you have the libglvnd.pc file
    dpkg -L libglvnd-core-dev | grep '\.pc'
  3. the critical part, make a symlink to glvnd..pc
    sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/libglvnd.pc \ /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/glvnd.pc
  4. now check if its working with this
    pkg-config --modversion glvnd
    should out the version
  5. you might need to export the path if the above cmd didn't work
    export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH
  6. recheck with pkg-config --modversion glvnd
  7. if it working add that line to you .bashrc
    echo 'export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
  8. now you can log out, login with console session with CTL + ALT + F3 and run the driver ./install script

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chcaouette commented Apr 5, 2026

@zakweb3, thanks a lot! It worked.

I actually found another problem back in February... there was a space on the folder name I was using for the driver file (Linux newbie, I swear I won't do it again!). I managed to compile the driver after fixing that, but there were still things that were not working right. One program in particular was still giving me problems (a Windows CAD software I was running using Wine).

It's my husband's computer, so I waited until he had a more serious crash before fiddling with the driver again... this happened today. So I used your fix for the glvnd library, then recompiled the driver after pulling the mods from github. And lo and behold... not only did it work, it also fixed the problem I was having with my CAD software.

So, thanks a lot for the fix!

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