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Re: Debian installer chooses the wrong NVidia driver

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Van, what is the specific GPU you have? I know it’s GF108 but what is the
actual model?

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 3:33 PM Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 23:27 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
>
> On 2/21/23 23:16, Van Snyder wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2023-02-21 at 22:41 +0200, Georgi Naplatanov wrote:
>
> On 2/21/23 22:13, Van Snyder wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Hi!
>
> It seems that nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver is available in Debian 11
> (bullseye). You have just to install it. If you have problems again,
> then try to use open source driver for NVidia's cards - Nouveau. it's
> installed by default and you have just to uninstall NVidia's proprietary
> drivers - nvidia-*.
>
>
> I did install it, but it took me a week to find that that was the
> problem. I had expected Debian's installer to choose to use the correct
> driver even if all the drivers it has in its entire achive are downloaded.
>
>
>
> There is a package nvidia-detect
>
> it tells you which driver is appropriate for your NVidia's video card.
>
>
> Yeah, I used that. Why didn't the installer use it, and choose the 390
> driver instead of installing the 470 driver?
>
>
> Kind regards
> Georgi
>
>
>

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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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