That's the thing -- I'm on stable-bpo, which has linux 7.0, and the module did not compile out of the gate for me when I tried the update.
Either way, I'd rather anticipate the problem of getting off nvidia-driver now on this machine. Cheers! On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 1:50 AM Alexander V. Makartsev <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 7/1/26 06:30, Boyan Penkov wrote: > > 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, > > It is either supported or not. It looks like [1] the version 580.xx will be > the final version for your VGA. > Version 550.xx, which is available for Debian stable [2], supports it. > If you are on Trixie and use kernel version 6.12, then nvidia-driver version > 550.xx should give you the time until the next Debian release, which is > usually happen in two years. > > and I don't > want to have to mess with guessing which Nvidia driver update will > finally fail to boot period > > If something will happen with the new 6.12.xx kernel update and nvidia-driver > DKMS module would fail to compile, you will know about it from the console > output. > Even if you ignore the errors and reboot to the black screen on tty7, you > will still have access to tty1 (Ctrl+Alt+F1) console and the way to sort it > out. > > (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... > > The choice is yours of course, but getting a stable and performant system for > at least two years, until the next Debian stable release, seems like a > no-brainer to me. > > > [1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/drivers/details/273196/ > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Debian_13_.22Trixie.22 > > -- > > With kindest regards, Alexander. > > Debian - The universal operating system > https://www.debian.org -- Boyan Penkov
