Re: EOLing nvidia-graphics-drivers for bullseye?

[Tobias Frost <tobi@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2025 at 01:32:04AM -0400, Ariel wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2025, Tobias Frost wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 11:15:14PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> > > On 6/24/25 19:46, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> > > > I plan to contact directly the sponsor to study the impact of
> > > > (officially) stopping supporting nvidia-graphics-driver.  But before
> > > > that, it would be helpful to know if a full version backport is
> > > > technically possible or not.  Help with that will be very appreciated.
> > > > Any volunteers?
> 
> > > A backport of 535.247.01-1~deb12u1 to bullseye should be rather trivial.
> > > Compared to 470.xx the ppc64el architecture will dropped since upstream no
> > > longer provides updated ppc64el binaries (this has also been done in
> > > bookworm).
> > > It is not a 0-change backport due to Openssl 1.1 vs. OpenSSL 3 (the
> > > neccessary changes are already in 535.183.01-1~deb12u1~bpo11+1).
> > > While writing this email a bullseye test rebuild of an updated
> > > bullseye-backports branch completed successfully. I can provide builds for
> > > LTS (source and/or binary, all architectures), but not test them.
> 
> > I can do test on amd64 on an old GTX 770 card (which might no longer
> > support 5xx) and on a 3060ti.
> 
> Were you able to test it? I have a GTX 750, and while I'm not able to test
> the new driver, I'm hoping my card will still work once I do finally upgrade
> to it.

Update: I finally found time for testing. The GTX 770 is not compatible with the 535 drivers,
(as already suspected). So I guess your 750 won't work as well.

-- 
tobi

> 	-Ariel