On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:45 +0100, Mario Marietto wrote: > If I dont get wrong,nvidia created one single driver which works for > every gpu or almost ? it means that if I install the 525 driver for > my RTX 2080 ti will it work also for my old gpu,GTX 1060 ?
The 470 driver that the Debian installer chose doesn't work with GF108. Only the 390 driver works. If you look at one of the alternative text screens (not X) the load process is complaining about that -- but it took me a week to find that. > > Il mar 21 feb 2023, 22:28 Georgi Naplatanov <go...@oles.biz> ha > scritto: > > On 2/21/23 23:16, Van Snyder wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > There is a package nvidia-detect > > > > it tells you which driver is appropriate for your NVidia's video > > card. > > > > Kind regards > > Georgi > >
