Re: Nouveau, libgallium?

["Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com>]

On 7/1/26 06:30, Boyan Penkov wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM Alexander V. Makartsev
> <avbetev@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/1/26 00:12, Boyan Penkov wrote:
> >
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I saw another issue that seems to point to mesa and nouveau,
> >
> > 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,
>     
    It is either supported or not. It looks like [1] the version 580.xx
    will be the final version for your VGA.
    Version 550.xx, which is available for Debian stable [2], supports
    it.
    If you are on Trixie and use kernel version 6.12, then nvidia-driver
    version 550.xx should give you the time until the next Debian
    release, which is usually happen in two years.
    
>  and I don't
> want to have to mess with guessing which Nvidia driver update will
> finally fail to boot period
>     
    If something will happen with the new 6.12.xx kernel update and
    nvidia-driver DKMS module would fail to compile, you will know about
    it from the console output.
    Even if you ignore the errors and reboot to the black screen on
    tty7, you will still have access to tty1 (Ctrl+Alt+F1) console and
    the way to sort it out.
    
> (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...
>     
    The choice is yours of course, but getting a stable and performant
    system for at least two years, until the next Debian stable release,
    seems like a no-brainer to me.
    
    
    [1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/drivers/details/273196/
    [2]
    https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Debian_13_.22Trixie.22

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 With kindest regards, Alexander.

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