Re: Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?)
On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 01:24:21PM -0700, Van Snyder wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 23:24 +0200, Hans wrote:
> > Hi van Snyder,
> >
> > I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it,
> > but maybe it will work.
>
> The solution did indeed allow to install the driver. But.... it removed
> at least KDE, and now it won't enter run level 5. I added
> nouveau.modeset=0 to the "linux" line in grub.cfg, but it's still
> running the nouveau driver, or at least that's what inxi -G reports:
>
Hi,
For the laptop - a clean install with nouveau _should_ work. Forget the
Nvidia proprietary driver - it's no longer supported by them and if the
Debian-packaged version is also obsolescent that's the end of it.
>
> I've been told that Mint includes NVidia drivers, so I'll try that
> next. I don't have a choice for my laptop, where the NVidia graphic
> chip is soldered to the mother board, but for my desktop if Mint
> doesn't work out, I'll give serious consideration to getting a
> supported video card from *not* NVidia.
>
Linux Mint current version is based on Ubuntu 22.04 - so is also
unlikely to have the drivers now. LMDE is based on Bookworm.
The favoured desktop for Mint has always been Cinnamon, I think.
Some older Nvidia cards for the desktop work relatively well with
nouveau - I've got a 1050ti and a 1060? in two machines here which work
well enough under GNOME.
> >
> > I got my information from this site.
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
> >
The above is my usual go-to for Debian and Nvidia too
Good luck and best wishes, however it all works out
Andy
(amacater@debian.org)
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