If I dont get wrong,nvidia created one single driver which works for every gpu or almost ? it means that if I install the 525 driver for my RTX 2080 ti will it work also for my old gpu,GTX 1060 ?
Il mar 21 feb 2023, 22:28 Georgi Naplatanov <[email protected]> ha scritto: > On 2/21/23 23:16, Van Snyder wrote: > > On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:41 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote: > >> On 2/21/23 22:13, Van Snyder wrote: > >>> I have an NVidia GF108 video card. It works just fine, so I don't see a > >>> reason to replace it. > >>> > >>> It needs the nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver. > >>> > >>> But when I installed Debian 11, it chose the 470 driver, which doesn't > >>> work with GF108. > >>> > >>> Maybe that was caused by selecting "install all the drivers" instead of > >>> "install only the relevant drivers." I thought that meant "download > them > >>> all in case you install some new hardware." > >>> > >>> Shouldn't the installer install only the drivers for the relevant > >>> hardware, even if it downloads all of them? > >>> > >>> I'm not going to re-install just to do an experiment to see if the > >>> installer does it right if I tell it to install only the relevant > >>> drivers. > >>> > >> > >> > >> Hi! > >> > >> It seems that nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver is available in Debian 11 > >> (bullseye). You have just to install it. If you have problems again, > >> then try to use open source driver for NVidia's cards - Nouveau. it's > >> installed by default and you have just to uninstall NVidia's proprietary > >> drivers - nvidia-*. > > > > I did install it, but it took me a week to find that that was the > > problem. I had expected Debian's installer to choose to use the correct > > driver even if all the drivers it has in its entire achive are > downloaded. > > > There is a package nvidia-detect > > it tells you which driver is appropriate for your NVidia's video card. > > Kind regards > Georgi > >
