AW: Re: nvidia-legacy-390xx - document not correct
Yes, I know. But as this is not a real bug IMHO, I wrote here, as I belive, package maintainers do read here, too.
Maybe I should file a bugreport, too.
Best regards
Hans
Am Mon, 25 Jul 2022 13:41:23 -0400, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> schrieb:
On 2022-07-25 at 13:12, Hans wrote:
> Dear meintainers,
Your mail was sent not to the package maintainers, but to the
debian-user mailing list, which is populated primarily by fellow users
of Debian. We can suggest and advise each other, but we have no more
ability to get package contents and descriptions updated than any other
user does.
> I ŕan into an issue with optimus and an nvidia card. Fist the hardware:
>
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation
> Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [Quadro
> NVS 4200M] (rev ff)
>
> I have two graphics cards, and the nvidia card is NVS 4200Ḿ.
>
> Please note, that the package nvidia-settings and the description of
> the package "nvidia-legacy-*-390xx"
I do not see any packages which match this name pattern. I see quite a
few which match the pattern "*nvidia-legacy-390xx*", but nothing that
would match that "-*-" in the middle. I'm proceeding on the presumption
that these are what you meant, and that you simply wrote the wildcard
pattern incorrectly.
> is telling, that these are the drivers for this graphic chip.
>
> But these are NOT!
>
> After hours of testing with buḿblee and then examine the NVidia site,
> I disćovered, that thecorrect driver for thius chip is *-340xx NOT
> *-390xx.
What Debian release are you running against? (For example, bullseye vs.
buster, or stable vs. testing vs. unstable.)
In my case, tracking both stable and testing, I do not see any '-340xx'
packages currently available. The only results for 'apt-cache search
nvidia-legacy' are about the -390xx packages.
> Installing this version, everything is working perfectly.
What was the exact package name you installed?
What does
$ apt-cache policy packagename
report, for that package name?
> And to confirm: Also the NVIDIA website is telling, for chipset GF119
> == NVS4200, thew correct driver is 340xx.
>
> Just before other people step into this trap, maybe you might want to
> correct the description.
If this is confirmed, it would probably be worth filing a bug report
about this, to get that documentation updated.
--
The Wanderer
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all
progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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