Re: Nvidia chipsets and Debian 12 [WAS Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?]

2024-07-18 Thread Gary Dale
On 2024-07-18 13:51, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 10:41:50AM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2024-07-18 at 07:55 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: HOW did you upgrade? Did you go via 11? Fresh install on reformatted boot and root partitions. OK I can't do that with my o

Re: Nvidia chipsets and Debian 12

2024-07-18 Thread Felix Miata
Andrew M.A. Cater composed on 2024-07-18 17:51 (UTC): > So just use Nouveau already on a ~15 year old laptop. FTR, technically not a good recommendation. Nouveau has multiple meanings. Employing each individual meaning generally is suboptimal, as it includes the "reverse-engineered, experimental"

Nvidia chipsets and Debian 12 [WAS Re: Why is Firefox crashing so much lately?]

2024-07-18 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 10:41:50AM -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > On Thu, 2024-07-18 at 07:55 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > > > > HOW did you upgrade? Did you go via 11? > > > Fresh install on reformatted boot and root partitions. > OK > > > I can't do that with my old Dell Vostro 1700 because