NVidia's driver search at
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx says that many drivers still available with Debian 12 support this card. I don't know which one is installed by "apt install nvidia-drivers" but it might be 535. You can get a script to install a specific driver from the search page. I installed 535 for my GM107L (K2200) without any problems. Run nvidia-detect and see which one it recommends.
On 2024-08-06 13:11 -0400, Eben King wrote:
Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver
handles this card. Is this correct?
Some features are missing, e.g. there is no accelerated video decoding.
Running a desktop should not be a problem though.
If so, do I just install the packages, install the card, tell the BIOS to
use it, power off, move the monitors, and that's it? With the card
connected, I can log in from console, but X won't run.
Also Grub gets a different video mode, maybe 24x80 instead of so tiny as to
be nearly illegible. Probably fine. Yeah I could probably change it if I
wanted. I did change the console.
That may be a sign that the firmware for the card is not installed,
AFAIK it is necessary to do anything useful with it. In Debian 12 and
earlier the firmware is in the package firmware-misc-nonfree, in
unstable and testing it has been relocated to a new
firmware-nvidia-graphics package.
Cheers,
Sven