Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> writes: > Am Samstag, 20. Mai 2023, 19:15:18 CEST schrieb Richmond: > >> Hans <hans.ullr...@loop.de> writes: > > >> > >> 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). > > > Hi Richmond, > > > regarding to debian/sid the package supports kernels up to 6.2. > > > However, there are some issues, so it will segfault any > qt-windowmangers (at the moment) and got some security issues. > > > I succcessfully could build the sources with kernel-headers 6.0.1-9 > (which with former kernels later than 5.10-22 did not work). > > > But sadly in the end I did not succced at all, as it did not load the > kernel modul and additionally it breaked my acceleration from the > inbuilt gpu of the intel processor. > > > So it was more a disappointment. On the other hand it could be, I > made some mistakes and should upgrade additional libs from unstable. > > > There is another thing, I also might done wrong (I wrote about some > weeks ago in this forum): lspci says it is > > > NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [Quadro NVS 4200M] (rev a1) > > > and nvidia-detect (and some other sources, are telling me, that for > this chipset NOT 340xx but 390xx should be used. > > > Thisis wrong, as I could prove, that only 340xx (with kernel 5.10-22) > is working. Installing 390xx, the kernel says: Wrong module, you have > to use 340xx. > > > This is the state at the moment. As I have only this laptop and no > spare harddrive at the moment, I could not install debian/unstable > for testing purposes. Maybe some time I will, or maybe some other guy > will do it. > > > Hope this makes some things clearer.
Not really, but I found this website which says the driver supports kernels "up to" 5.4 which I guess means up to and including. https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3142/ But debian seems to drop after debian 10 because kernel is 5.10 ? https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers I see here someone has patched the drivers: https://github.com/MeowIce/nvidia-legacy :-? Ubuntu 20.04 supports kernel 5.4 until 2025. So I might try that after debian 10 expires. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FocalFossa/ReleaseNotes#Linux_Kernel My card: nvidia-detect Detected NVIDIA GPUs: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [GeForce 8400M GS] [10de:0427] (rev a1) Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation G86M [GeForce 8400M GS] (rev a1) Your card is only supported up to the 340 legacy drivers series. It is recommended to install the nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver package.
