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Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid

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Hallo,
* Floris [Sun, Aug 14 2016, 11:08:49AM]:
> Op Sat, 13 Aug 2016 20:54:51 +0200 schreef Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de>:
> 
> > Hallo,
> > 
> > I would like to spend some hours on a normal game without having to
> > reboot into Windows. I have a Steam account and some Linux games are
> > available (at least some from Valve).
> > 
> > But the video card I have is not ok. It's a Nvidia Geforce 750Ti
> > (passive cooling), it works quite well with the Nouveau drivers but
> > there are too many glitches in 3D games, some are basically not
> > playable. I remember that Nvidia drivers (non-free) have been a lot
> > better but I cannot make them work with current Debian Unstable, even if
> > I install the latest packages from Debian Experimental, the drivers
> > simply don't compile with latest kernels.
> > 
> 
> Don't use the experimental branch, but use the latest version from svn:
> https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Building_newer_releases_from_SVN
> 
> I don't have any troubles with the 367.35 version (kernel 4.6)

Thanks for the hint, I will give it a try, either with kernel 4.7 or at
least 4.6 which is in Sid.

Looks like maintainers need some help. It shouldn't take three months to
bring an important update into Experimental.

Regards,
Eduard.

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Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> - 2016-08-13 21:00 +0200
  Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2016-08-13 21:30 +0200
    Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> - 2016-08-15 23:50 +0200
  Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-08-14 11:10 +0200
    Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> - 2016-08-16 00:10 +0200
      Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2016-08-17 14:40 +0200
  Re: Quiet gaming capable gfx card for Debian Sid Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-08-14 17:10 +0200

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