According to Nvidia's official website GT 710 is supported up to 470 version. [1]Hello, all,
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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.
I had issues very similar to your description. Even made a bug report [3] about it.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:
- It happens in any of the kernels I have installed: 6.1, 6.0, 5.11, 4.9
- It happens in Plasma, and it doesn't matter if I'm running X11 or Wayland
- It _seems_ not to happen under GNOME Wayland, but I think it happens under GNOME X11
- It appears to be related with screen sharing, because:
- When I was using Plasma, I had the impression that the graphics froze way more often when I was sharing my screen
- Screen sharing doesn't work on GNOME Wayland (maybe related to why it didn't freeze yet)
- The one time where I tried to use GNOME X11, it froze immediately after I tried to share my screen
- The kernel logs seem to indicate some missing firmware right before the graphics card freezes (and indeed some firmware is missing)
I haven't checked, but I think nouveau didn't had a commit in years. It is an abandon-ware for me.
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?
- Should I try updating to a newer kernel to see if nouveau got fixed?
I'd try that, at least to see if it solves the issue.
- Should I try installing the missing firmware?