Re: nvidia package 340xx
"Marlin S. Petre" <marlin@redrunelectronics.net> writes:
> On 5/20/23 1:15 PM, Richmond wrote:
>> As far as I remember the problem in Nvidia does not support kernels
>> above 4. This is why my laptop is stuck on Debian 10, although I did
>> wonder if Debian 11 can run with kernel 4.
>>
>> (Nouveaux is no good to me).
>>
> I am using the "nvidia-tesla-450-driver" on Debian 12 bookworm. You
> need to install the linux-headers package that matches your kernel version
> in order for the nvidia driver to build into the kernel. For Bullseye amd64,
> I think this would be "linux-headers-5.10.0-22-amd64". For Bookworm, it is
> "linux-headers-6.1.0-9-amd64".
>
> If a point release of stable ships with a different kernel version, I
> learned that I
> needed to install the headers package that matched, or the driver
> would build
> for the old kernel.
>
> Regards,
> Marlin
I am referring to the legacy 340 driver which OP is using and I am
using. Nvidia doesn't support that driver above kernel 4. Tesla 450
doesn't look like legacy to me, it's in the Debian 11 repo.
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