Re: Nouveau, libgallium?
On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM Alexander V. Makartsev
<avbetev@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 7/1/26 00:12, Boyan Penkov wrote:
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> Hello folks,
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> I saw another issue that seems to point to mesa and nouveau,
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> Is there a specific reason to use nouveau driver?
> It always performed like a Proof-of-Concept for me, lacking in hardware support and having stability issues.
> Your VGA (Quadro K2200 is it?) is supported by proprietary Nvidia driver, so my suggestion is to install it from Debian repo and see if your stability issues go away.
> This way you will also check if VGA itself is working fine and doesn't have any hardware defects, which could be hidden and be the source of sporadic stability issues.
Hello Alexander -- yes, fair point, and I don't know how
unconventional my decision is here, but this card is getting
increasingly old, barely supported by the official driver, and I don't
want to have to mess with guessing which Nvidia driver update will
finally fail to boot period
(https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#data-center-d13), so I
am steering away from nvidia-driver.
So my guiding light here is for this machine, forget the proprietary
driver and use the FOSS one, but this seems to have shot me in the
foot...
Cheers!
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> --
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> With kindest regards, Alexander.
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Boyan Penkov
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