On 2023-03-22 10:50:30 +0100, Hans wrote: > What I believe is, that the documentation from NVidia might be wrong > and Nvidia told wrong, to say 390xx is for NVS4200.
I don't know for your case, but there are inconsistencies in the Nvidia pages. For instance, for Quadro K610M, the 470.161.03 page https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/194637/en-us/ does not list is as supported by 470.xx (and it is not listed at all on https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/470.161.03/README/supportedchips.html), but both https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/520.56.06/README/supportedchips.html and https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/525.89.02/README/supportedchips.html list it as supported by 470.xx. I'm not sure what to do, but anyway, Debian considered that 470.xx did not support it. > On the other hand, it might be a bug, that the 340xx can not be build with > newer kernels (I > discovered the compilation is crashing due to some missing files. I filed a > bugreport of this > almost a year ago), which inhibits users, to use newer kernel-versions. New kernels (and new versions of the X server) introduce incompatibilities, and then Nvidia corrects their drivers. Unfortunately for you, 340.xx is no longer supported by Nvidia, and 390.xx isn't supported either. > This is a pity especially for notebooks, where you can not exchange > the GPU. Yes, both my laptop and my desktop machine (at my lab) from 2015 are concerned (even for the desktop machine, it will be easier to change it, though I could still use the old machine remotely for various kinds of work). > Oh, before someone tells: I do NOT want to use nouveau! Though I would prefer free software, nouveau is not usable for me, in particular with my laptop. Remember... https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/05/msg00464.html The developers did not care to look at my bug reports (this one and older ones). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
