Van, what is the specific GPU you have? I know it’s GF108 but what is the actual model?
On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 3:33 PM Van Snyder <van.sny...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 23:27 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > > 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. > > > Yeah, I used that. Why didn't the installer use it, and choose the 390 > driver instead of installing the 470 driver? > > > Kind regards > Georgi > > >
