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Re: nvidia package wrong documentation?

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On Wed 22 Mar 2023 at 10:50:30 (+0100), Hans wrote:
> 
> I am running a Lenovo T520 with two graphic cards on board: Intel an Nvidia.
> 
> As you see here it is an GF119M [Quadro NVS 4200M] (rev a1)
> 
> --- snip ---
> lspci | grep VGA 
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core Processor Family 
> Integrated Gra
> phics Controller (rev 09) 
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [Quadro NVS 4200M] (rev a1)
> --- snap ---
> 
> The documentation requires the nvidia-legacy-*390xx* driver to use, but as hard as I try, this 
> will not work.
> 
> However, what is working is the driver nvidia-legacy-*340xx.*
> 
> (I am using bumblebee)

Presumably not a reference to the malware of that name.

> This one is working like a charm, but can not be build with kernels newer than 5.10-18.*. So I 
> have to stay with this kernel.
> 
> What I believe is, that the documentation from NVidia might be wrong and Nvidia told wrong, to 
> say 390xx is for NVS4200. 
> 
> On the other hand, it might be a bug, that the 340xx can not be build with newer kernels (I 
> discovered the compilation is crashing due to some missing files. I filed a bugreport of this 
> almost a year ago), which inhibits users, to use newer kernel-versions.
> 
> This is a pity especially for notebooks, where you can not exchange the GPU.
> 
> I just wanted to inform you, if someone got into the same trouble as me, wondering, why it does 
> not run.
> 
> Thanks for reading this.
> 
> Oh, before someone tells: I do NOT want to use nouveau!

In view of your earlier statements "And yes, tell me paranoid - I am!",
perhaps you should read:

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#line-58

Cheers,
David.

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nvidia package wrong documentation? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2023-03-22 11:00 +0100
  Re: nvidia package wrong documentation? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-22 15:50 +0100
  Re: nvidia package wrong documentation? Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-03-23 14:50 +0100
    Re: ID problem: "the nouveau driver" (was: nvidia package wrong  documentation?) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-03-23 18:40 +0100
      Re: ID problem: "the nouveau driver" (was: nvidia package wrong  documentation?) Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2023-03-24 04:00 +0100
        Re: ID problem: "the nouveau driver" Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-03-24 04:50 +0100
          Re: ID problem: "the nouveau driver" debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-03-24 12:10 +0100
            Re: ID problem: "the nouveau driver" Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-03-24 17:20 +0100
              Re: ID problem: "the nouveau driver" debian-user@howorth.org.uk - 2023-03-24 21:30 +0100

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