NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?

From	Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?
Date	2024-06-07 22:40 +0200
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Has anybody been able to install the NVidia 340.108 video driver in
Debian 12?

The messages I found said "Support for it ended in 2019. Use nouveau."

But I seem to have trouble with nouveau. When I was running Debian 10
on a Dell Vostro 1700 laptop with NVidia GeForce 8400M graphics, I had
been able to install the driver, and had no trouble. I made the mistake
of installing Debian 12.5 on the same partition, so I don't have the
Debian 10 install anymore. It freezes so completely that the keyboard
doesn't work, so I can't switch to a TTY screen. Even if I "ssh" to it
from my desktop, I can't kill and restart the graphics. I have a script
to restart KDE, but it does nothing. Even "init 3" doesn't do the
trick. I have to hold down the power key to reboot. I don't think it's
a hardware problem that amazingly manifested simultaneously with a new
install.

Here's some too-late advice I've given to myself: Never blow away your
old install that appears to be working. If you don't have a new disk,
and you have room on the old one, make new boot and root partitions.
Mark only the new boot partition as the bootable one. Hook both boot
partitions to grub.

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NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm? Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net> - 2024-06-07 22:40 +0200
  Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-06-07 22:50 +0200
    Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm? Toni Mas Soler <antomassol@gmail.com> - 2024-06-10 01:20 +0200
      Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm? Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-06-10 10:20 +0200
        Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2024-06-10 16:20 +0200
  Re: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2024-06-08 07:30 +0200
  Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in  Bookworm?) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2024-07-03 08:20 +0200
    Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in  Bookworm?) "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-07-03 10:10 +0200
      Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2024-07-03 22:10 +0200
      Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in  Bookworm?) "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2024-07-04 00:00 +0200
          Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs (was: NVidia 340 video driver in Bookworm?) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2024-07-04 09:10 +0200

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