On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM Alexander V. Makartsev <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/1/26 00:12, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > Hello folks, > > I saw another issue that seems to point to mesa and nouveau, > > Is there a specific reason to use nouveau driver? > It always performed like a Proof-of-Concept for me, lacking in hardware > support and having stability issues. > Your VGA (Quadro K2200 is it?) is supported by proprietary Nvidia driver, so > my suggestion is to install it from Debian repo and see if your stability > issues go away. > This way you will also check if VGA itself is working fine and doesn't have > any hardware defects, which could be hidden and be the source of sporadic > stability issues.
Hello Alexander -- yes, fair point, and I don't know how unconventional my decision is here, but this card is getting increasingly old, barely supported by the official driver, and I don't want to have to mess with guessing which Nvidia driver update will finally fail to boot period (https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#data-center-d13), so I am steering away from nvidia-driver. So my guiding light here is for this machine, forget the proprietary driver and use the FOSS one, but this seems to have shot me in the foot... Cheers! > > > -- > > With kindest regards, Alexander. > > Debian - The universal operating system > https://www.debian.org -- Boyan Penkov
