Re: nvidia package wrong documentation?
On 2023-03-22 10:50:30 +0100, Hans wrote:
> What I believe is, that the documentation from NVidia might be wrong
> and Nvidia told wrong, to say 390xx is for NVS4200.
I don't know for your case, but there are inconsistencies in the
Nvidia pages. For instance, for Quadro K610M, the 470.161.03 page
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/194637/en-us/
does not list is as supported by 470.xx (and it is not listed at
all on
https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/470.161.03/README/supportedchips.html),
but both
https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/520.56.06/README/supportedchips.html
and
https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/525.89.02/README/supportedchips.html
list it as supported by 470.xx. I'm not sure what to do, but
anyway, Debian considered that 470.xx did not support it.
> 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.
New kernels (and new versions of the X server) introduce
incompatibilities, and then Nvidia corrects their drivers.
Unfortunately for you, 340.xx is no longer supported by
Nvidia, and 390.xx isn't supported either.
> This is a pity especially for notebooks, where you can not exchange
> the GPU.
Yes, both my laptop and my desktop machine (at my lab) from 2015
are concerned (even for the desktop machine, it will be easier
to change it, though I could still use the old machine remotely
for various kinds of work).
> Oh, before someone tells: I do NOT want to use nouveau!
Though I would prefer free software, nouveau is not usable for me,
in particular with my laptop. Remember...
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/05/msg00464.html
The developers did not care to look at my bug reports (this one
and older ones).
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