On 2/21/23 23:16, Van Snyder wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:41 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
>> On 2/21/23 22:13, Van Snyder wrote:
>>> I have an NVidia GF108 video card. It works just fine, so I don't see a
>>> reason to replace it.
>>>
>>> It needs the nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver.
>>>
>>> But when I installed Debian 11, it chose the 470 driver, which doesn't
>>> work with GF108.
>>>
>>> Maybe that was caused by selecting "install all the drivers" instead of
>>> "install only the relevant drivers." I thought that meant "download them
>>> all in case you install some new hardware."
>>>
>>> Shouldn't the installer install only the drivers for the relevant
>>> hardware, even if it downloads all of them?
>>>
>>> I'm not going to re-install just to do an experiment to see if the
>>> installer does it right if I tell it to install only the relevant
>>> drivers.
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hi!
>>
>> It seems that nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver is available in Debian 11
>> (bullseye). You have just to install it. If you have problems again,
>> then try to use open source driver for NVidia's cards - Nouveau. it's
>> installed by default and you have just to uninstall NVidia's proprietary
>> drivers - nvidia-*.
>
> I did install it, but it took me a week to find that that was the
> problem. I had expected Debian's installer to choose to use the correct
> driver even if all the drivers it has in its entire achive are downloaded.
There is a package nvidia-detect
it tells you which driver is appropriate for your NVidia's video card.
Kind regards
Georgi