Re: New video card, how to deal?

2021-07-31 Thread Anssi Saari
Felix Miata writes: > Modesetting DIX driver > > (Device Independent X driver) > > as opposed to Device Dependent X drivers Amdgpu, Intel, Nouveau & Radeon. OK. Well, the man page says it's a driver for KMS devices? A raw Nvidia chip with no supporting kernel driver isn't going to present

Re: New video card, how to deal?

2021-07-30 Thread Felix Miata
Anssi Saari composed on 2021-07-30 11:42 (UTC+0300): > Felix Miata wrote: >> Have you tried both pure FOSS solutions? If xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is >> installed, try purging it. The generic nature of the

Re: New video card, how to deal?

2021-07-30 Thread Anssi Saari
didier gaumet writes: > There is an Experimental Debian repository which contains the most up- > to-date non-free Nvidia driver (470.57.02-1, similar to Nvidia > website): > https://packages.debian.org/experimental/nvidia-driver Yes, thanks. Sure, experimental and unstable too already have new

Re: New video card, how to deal?

2021-07-30 Thread didier gaumet
Le vendredi 30 juillet 2021 à 11:42 +0300, Anssi Saari a écrit : > Felix Miata writes: [...] > > [OTOH, why not Bullseye? It's on the verge of official release, > > running on more > > than 20 PCs here. > > Because it doesn't solve any problem since it has no newer Nvidia > drivers. If it did

Re: New video card, how to deal?

2021-07-30 Thread Anssi Saari
Felix Miata writes: > Have you tried both pure FOSS solutions? If xserver-xorg-video-nouveau is > installed, try purging it. The generic nature of the modesetting DIX could > conceivably be enough to run that

Re: New video card, how to deal?

2021-07-30 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 30. Juli 2021, 09:32:21 CEST schrieb Anssi Saari: Hi Anssi, if the repo doesn't offer the required packages, you can download the drivers directly from the Nvidia site. First remove all nvidia packages (i.e. "aptitude purge ~nnvidia*" ,then download the script. It is a

Re: New video card, how to deal?

2021-07-30 Thread Felix Miata
Anssi Saari composed on 2021-07-30 10:32 (UTC+0300): > I managed to snag a new video card with Nvidia's RTX3070Ti. Due to the > recent release of the 3070Ti, I have a bit of a problem with Debian 10 > as required drivers are quite new (460.84 or 465.31) and Buster has > 460.73 in backports. And

New video card, how to deal?

2021-07-30 Thread Anssi Saari
I managed to snag a new video card with Nvidia's RTX3070Ti. Due to the recent release of the 3070Ti, I have a bit of a problem with Debian 10 as required drivers are quite new (460.84 or 465.31) and Buster has 460.73 in backports. And now Bullseye is frozen so presumably there won't be an