Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

From	Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver
Date	2023-02-21 21:20 +0100
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I have an NVidia GF108 video card. It works just fine, so I don't see a
reason to replace it.

It needs the nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver.

But when I installed Debian 11, it chose the 470 driver, which doesn't
work with GF108.

Maybe that was caused by selecting "install all the drivers" instead of
"install only the relevant drivers." I thought that meant "download
them all in case you install some new hardware."

Shouldn't the installer install only the drivers for the relevant
hardware, even if it downloads all of them?

I'm not going to re-install just to do an experiment to see if the
installer does it right if I tell it to install only the relevant
drivers.

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Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net> - 2023-02-21 21:20 +0100
  Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2023-02-21 21:50 +0100
    Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net> - 2023-02-21 22:20 +0100
      Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2023-02-21 22:30 +0100
        Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2023-02-21 22:50 +0100
          Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2023-02-21 23:00 +0100
            Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> - 2023-02-21 23:30 +0100
          Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-03-22 15:50 +0100
        Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver Jeremy Hendricks <jwh1981@gmail.com> - 2023-02-22 21:50 +0100
          Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver Jeremy Hendricks <jwh1981@gmail.com> - 2023-02-22 22:10 +0100
            Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2023-02-23 06:40 +0100

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