On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:41 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > On 2/21/23 22:13, Van Snyder wrote: > > I have an NVidia GF108 video card. It works just fine, so I don't > > see a > > reason to replace it. > > > > It needs the nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver. > > > > But when I installed Debian 11, it chose the 470 driver, which > > doesn't > > work with GF108. > > > > Maybe that was caused by selecting "install all the drivers" > > instead of > > "install only the relevant drivers." I thought that meant "download > > them > > all in case you install some new hardware." > > > > Shouldn't the installer install only the drivers for the relevant > > hardware, even if it downloads all of them? > > > > I'm not going to re-install just to do an experiment to see if the > > installer does it right if I tell it to install only the relevant > > drivers. > > > > > Hi! > > It seems that nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver is available in Debian 11 > (bullseye). You have just to install it. If you have problems again, > then try to use open source driver for NVidia's cards - Nouveau. it's > installed by default and you have just to uninstall NVidia's > proprietary > drivers - nvidia-*.
I did install it, but it took me a week to find that that was the problem. I had expected Debian's installer to choose to use the correct driver even if all the drivers it has in its entire achive are downloaded. > > Kind regards > Georgi >
