Re: Nvidia, Trixie, legacy drivers
Alex Wahl composed on 2025-08-10 01:21 (UTC-0400):
> Count me in among those who used the Tesla 470 drivers and now am totally out of luck as they've been discontinued in Trixie. Nouveau is proving to be absolutely useless, both on XFCE and MATE. Can I at least compile from upstream or are we just totally and utterly out of luck?
Perhaps it would help others to help you if you shared your GPU model. My old
entry-level Tesla seems perfectly fine, far from "useless", on pure Trixie FOSS:
# aptitude search video-nouv
p xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver
# inxi -GSaz --za --hostname
System:
Host: mcp61 Kernel: 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 14.2.0 clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm parameters: root=LABEL=<filter>
ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 noresume consoleblank=0 mitigations=off
Desktop: TDE (Trinity) v: R14.1.5~[DEVELOPMENT] tk: Qt v: 3.5.0 wm: Twin
v: 3.0 with: kicker vt: 7 dm: 1: TDM 2: XDM Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 13
(trixie)
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau
v: kernel non-free: series: 340.xx status: legacy (EOL~2019-12-xx) last:
release: 340.108 kernel: 5.4 xorg: 1.20 arch: Tesla process: 40-80nm
built: 2006-2013 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: DVI-I-1,HDMI-A-1 empty: VGA-1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
class-ID: 0300 temp: 63.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 compositor: Twin v: 3.0 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3600x1200 s-dpi: 120 s-size: 762x254mm (30.00x10.00")
s-diag: 803mm (31.62")
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: right model: Dell P2213 serial: <filter>
built: 2013 res: mode: 1680x1050 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2
size: 473x296mm (18.62x11.65") diag: 558mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes:
max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 pos: primary,left model: NEC EA243WM
serial: <filter> built: 2011 res: mode: 1920x1200 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1)
dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2 size: 519x324mm (20.43x12.76") diag: 612mm (24.1")
ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1920x1200 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau platforms: device: 0 drv: nouveau
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nouveau surfaceless: drv: nouveau x11:
drv: nouveau inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NVA8 device-ID: 10de:0a65 memory: 983.4 MiB
unified: no
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 4 device: 0 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM
19.1.7 128 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.0.7-2 (LLVM 19.1.7)
device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
#
Note: the nouveau display driver is neither required nor installed here.
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