Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid

[Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl>]

Op Tue, 16 Aug 2016 00:05:14 +0200 schreef Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>:

> Hallo,
> * Floris [Sun, Aug 14 2016, 11:08:49AM]:
> > Op Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:54:51 +0200 schreef Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>:
> >
> > > Hallo,
> > >
> > > I would like to spend some hours on a normal game without having to
> > > reboot into Windows. I have a Steam account and some Linux games are
> > > available (at least some from Valve).
> > >
> > > But the video card I have is not ok. It's a Nvidia Geforce 750Ti
> > > (passive cooling), it works quite well with the Nouveau drivers but
> > > there are too many glitches in 3D games, some are basically not
> > > playable. I remember that Nvidia drivers (non-free) have been a lot
> > > better but I cannot make them work with current Debian Unstable, even  
> > if
> > > I install the latest packages from Debian Experimental, the drivers
> > > simply don't compile with latest kernels.
> > >
> >
> > Don't use the experimental branch, but use the latest version from svn:
> > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_releases_from_SVN
> >
> > I don't have any troubles with the 367.35 version (kernel 4.6)
>
> Thanks for the hint, I will give it a try, either with kernel 4.7 or at
> least 4.6 which is in Sid.
>
> Looks like maintainers need some help. It shouldn't take three months to
> bring an important update into Experimental.

I am not sure why, but the Nvidia packages are uploaded into the NEW queue
and have to wait until they are _manually_ transfered to unstable.
That is why there is a chapter about the svn branch in the wiki for all the
people who don't want to wait.


The Debian Nvidia maintainers are very quick with the new version. Version
370, which is one day old, is already in svn!

Floris