Re: nvidia package wrong documentation?
On Wed 22 Mar 2023 at 10:50:30 (+0100), Hans wrote:
>
> I am running a Lenovo T520 with two graphic cards on board: Intel an Nvidia.
>
> As you see here it is an GF119M [Quadro NVS 4200M] (rev a1)
>
> --- snip ---
> lspci | grep VGA
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family
> Integrated Gra
> phics Controller (rev 09)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [Quadro NVS 4200M] (rev a1)
> --- snap ---
>
> The documentation requires the nvidia-legacy-*390xx* driver to use, but as hard as I try, this
> will not work.
>
> However, what is working is the driver nvidia-legacy-*340xx.*
>
> (I am using bumblebee)
Presumably not a reference to the malware of that name.
> This one is working like a charm, but can not be build with kernels newer than 5.10-18.*. So I
> have to stay with this kernel.
>
> What I believe is, that the documentation from NVidia might be wrong and Nvidia told wrong, to
> say 390xx is for NVS4200.
>
> On the other hand, it might be a bug, that the 340xx can not be build with newer kernels (I
> discovered the compilation is crashing due to some missing files. I filed a bugreport of this
> almost a year ago), which inhibits users, to use newer kernel-versions.
>
> This is a pity especially for notebooks, where you can not exchange the GPU.
>
> I just wanted to inform you, if someone got into the same trouble as me, wondering, why it does
> not run.
>
> Thanks for reading this.
>
> Oh, before someone tells: I do NOT want to use nouveau!
In view of your earlier statements "And yes, tell me paranoid - I am!",
perhaps you should read:
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#line-58
Cheers,
David.
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