On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 15:26 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I have several Debian/unstable machines, all with a Nvidia card. > > On one of them, due to a bug in nouveau in the past, I use the > proprietary nvidia driver: libnvidia-legacy-390xx-* packages. > And the initrd size is reasonable:
… > Should I switch to the proprietary nvidia driver on these machines? Without NVidia's graphics accelerator, using software rendering with nouveau is painfully slow. Sometimes even the mouse cursor is frozen. This is especially the case if you're looking at a web page that has an annoying video ad playing in a sidebar. The NVidia 390 driver is not available for Debian 12 (and it might not have been available for Debian 11). I wasted a lot of my time, and a lot of bandwidth in this discussion list, trying to install it. On my desktop, I installed a Quadro K2200 card to replace by GeForce card -- so now a computer that I use less frequently is stuck with nouveau. On a laptop, I'm stuck with nouveau or returning to Debian 10.
