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Re: nouveau on old NV GPUs

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On 4/7/24 02:29, Van Snyder wrote:
> On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 08:03 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
>> Resolve never to buy Nvidia again :)
> 
> 1) On my brother's antique Dell Vostro 1700 laptop, the NVidia G68M 
> (GeForce 8400M GS) is soldered to the motherboard.
> 
> 2)I'm running NVidia in two desktops because my erstwhile SA gave them 
> to me when computers were decommissioned. At the time they were a big 
> step up. Now NVidia doesn't support them in Debian. What do you 
> recommend for them? Multiple monitors. No gaming but an occasional 
> video. And some features of the KDE Kinfocenter, especially the System 
> Monitor, either don't work at all, or just make a mess, without a 
> graphic accelerator.
> 
> 

I suggest that (and, this might not be liked on this list) you install 
on one of your computers, alongside Debian, so that you can choose which 
operating system to boot, Linux Mint (I run Linux Mint Mate), which has 
the drivers for NVIDIA graphics.

About ten years ago, I bought an Acer Aspire 773G (you might be able to 
find reference to this, in the list archives), and, it had (has) MS 
Windows 8 on it, that I could not use - too difficult.

It took me 18 months to get the computer going.

Only two non-MS operating systems had drivers for the CPU; dragonflyBSD, 
and Ubuntu Linux. The CPU is an i7, the name of the architecture of the 
CPU, is something like Haskell.

Of those two OS's, dragonflyBSD did not have the driver for the NVIDIA 
Optimum, and, the response that I got from the dragonflyBSD mailing 
list, was "Get Stuffed - we will not have drivers for NVIDIA - we are 
not here to provide a usable operating system!"

Ubuntu Linux was the only non-MS operating system, that had the nouveau 
driver, for the NVIDIA Optimum.

So, I switched to Ubuntu Linux (I believe that I was using Debian on my 
computers, up to then).

And then, Ubuntu Linux went wonky, a couple of years ago, with its 
snapcrap and mandatory fully automated updates, to eliminate usefulness 
and productivity, and other user-hostile stuff, and then I found out 
about Linux Mint, with the release of version 21, which is based on 
Ubuntu, but without the snapcrap and other Ubuntu wonkiness.

So, Linux Mint has the NVIDIA drivers; both native drivers, and, 
nouveau. I am using the NVIDIA drivers, on my computers.

I have four of my five computers, that have NVIDIA graphics

Now, having said that Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu, the more common 
version is based on Ubuntu Linux - see
https://www.linuxmint.com/
but, a version of Linux Mint, is available, that is based on Debian - see
https://www.linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php

Whether the LMDE version has the drivers for NVIDIA, I do not know, but, 
I do know that the version that is based on Ubuntu, does have the 
drivers, and, I have been using it with (mostly) no problems.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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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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