"Marlin S. Petre" <mar...@redrunelectronics.net> writes: > On 5/20/23 1:15 PM, Richmond wrote: >> As far as I remember the problem in Nvidia does not support kernels >> above 4. This is why my laptop is stuck on Debian 10, although I did >> wonder if Debian 11 can run with kernel 4. >> >> (Nouveaux is no good to me). >> > I am using the "nvidia-tesla-450-driver" on Debian 12 bookworm. You > need to install the linux-headers package that matches your kernel version > in order for the nvidia driver to build into the kernel. For Bullseye amd64, > I think this would be "linux-headers-5.10.0-22-amd64". For Bookworm, it is > "linux-headers-6.1.0-9-amd64". > > If a point release of stable ships with a different kernel version, I > learned that I > needed to install the headers package that matched, or the driver > would build > for the old kernel. > > Regards, > Marlin
I am referring to the legacy 340 driver which OP is using and I am using. Nvidia doesn't support that driver above kernel 4. Tesla 450 doesn't look like legacy to me, it's in the Debian 11 repo.
