Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver
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- Subject: Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver
- From: David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 09:41:09 -0500
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On Tue 21 Feb 2023 at 14:36:21 (-0800), Van Snyder wrote:
> On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:45 +0100, Mario Marietto wrote:
> > If I dont get wrong,nvidia created one single driver which works for
> > every gpu or almost ? it means that if I install the 525 driver for
> > my RTX 2080 ti will it work also for my old gpu,GTX 1060 ?
>
> The 470 driver that the Debian installer chose doesn't work with GF108.
> Only the 390 driver works. If you look at one of the alternative text
> screens (not X) the load process is complaining about that -- but it
> took me a week to find that.
Perhaps https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
would have helped. Perhaps it needs an extra note adding.
Cheers,
David.
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