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I have (according do lspci) a NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1) graphics card. The correct proprietary driver for this card seems to be the Nvidia 390 series.
When Bookworm came out, I was running Bullseye with this driver and never really had any graphical issues that I can remember. Upon upgrading to Bullseye, I eventually found out this driver was no longer available and I was stuck with nouveau. I was recommended the tesla 470 driver during the upgrade, but I never got it to work.
The nouveau driver would be fine, since I don't do anything graphics-intensive like gaming and I get the bonus of being able to run Wayland, which is cool. Except that I started noticing constant freezes for no apparent reason. They usually take a few hours to happen, sometimes I can spend a day or maybe two without freezes, but they _keep happening_. I'm gonna spare you of the details of the effort I spent trying to investigate this problem, but what I found out is:
Screen sharing is essential for me to work, so this is really not a great situation to be in. For comparison, my laptop, which was also updated to Bookworm in the same day I updated this PC, had none of the problems I'm describing here, since it has an integrated intel graphics card.
I appreciate that Nvidia cards can be very problematic and that the one card I own is really old, but I didn't have this problem until updating and I know this card can work just fine with the right driver. Unfortunately, right now, nouveau is not adequate for me to work, but the driver that does work is not officially available. What should I do?