> But the wheezy "default" drivers are fine enough so that you don't need > the backported driver. > Its more interesting for the hardware support added after 304xx: there > you will need nvidia-driver/wheezy- > backports. The distro I'm using is wheezy-based, but it's using the 3.12 series wheezy-backports kernel. I think the "default" wheezy drivers stopped working somewhere around the 3.8 or 3.9 kernel.
>> Here's an example using the pciid of a GeForce GT 640, 10de:1282 >> Uh oh. Your card is only supported by the 71.86 legacy drivers series, which >> is not in any current Debian suite. >> >> With wheezy-backports enabled, I believe it should have returned either >> 'nvidia-driver' or 'nvidia-glx'. > No, 71xx legacy hardware won't be supported by any newer driver. That's the incorrect detection I'm talking about. The GeForce GT 640 is fairly new, I think was introduced in mid 2012, it's definitely not "71xx legacy hardware". In a sid install nvidia-detect recommends nvidia-driver for that pciid, the wheezy-backports nvidia-driver package will also support it. > And 96xx is also unsupported in jessie. Again, I'm using a wheezy base. 96xx supports the wheezy xorg version. I need to doublecheck though to see if the wheezy-backports 96xx works with a 3.12 kernel. What brought this up is I've created a script to install the nvidia driver, and it uses nvidia-detect to select the correct nvidia driver package. If it's going to be a longtime before nvidia-detect is "backports aware", I might need to use some other detection method.
