On 2026-04-22 18:47, D. R. Evans wrote:
Since the upgrade to trixie, I have been experiencing video issues on my main desktop machine (where "video issues" means anything between broken rendering and full lock-ups).When I run nvidia-detect: ---- [ZB:~] nvidia-detect Detected NVIDIA GPUs:04:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] [10de:0de1] (rev a1)Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)Your card is only supported by the 390 legacy drivers series, which is only available up to bullseye.[ZB:~] ----I'm unsure what driver is being used, but whatever it is, it seems that I need to change it to something that works better.
You can check with `lspci -v`. Look for the entry for your VGA controller and then for:
Kernel driver in use
Kernel modules
Also in `lsmod`, the relevant kernel module would be either 'nvidia'
(proprietary) or `nouveau` (open source).
Apparently current Nvidia's proprietary kernel module does not support GT 430 video card anymore. So either find a way to install Nvidia's version 390 in trixie, or try switching to nouveau, which might be sufficient, depending on your graphics acceleration needs.
Any suggestions as to how to proceed would be gratefully received. (Maybe I have to buy a new video card?)
Lately I'm quite happy using Intel's ARC video cards — kernel module `xe` (i.e. "driver") is in standard Linux kernel.
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