On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 23:24 +0200, Hans wrote:
Hi van Snyder,
I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it,
but maybe it will work.
The solution did indeed allow to install the driver. But.... it removed
at least KDE, and now it won't enter run level 5. I added
nouveau.modeset=0 to the "linux" line in grub.cfg, but it's still
running the nouveau driver, or at least that's what inxi -G reports:
I've been told that Mint includes NVidia drivers, so I'll try that
next. I don't have a choice for my laptop, where the NVidia graphic
chip is soldered to the mother board, but for my desktop if Mint
doesn't work out, I'll give serious consideration to getting a
supported video card from *not* NVidia.
I got my information from this site.
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
Hi van Snyder,
I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it,
but maybe it will work.
I am running the kernel 6.7.12+bpo-amd64 on my system. This is a
backport kernel, but it might also work with other kernels, too.
You also need to install the build environment, the easiest way is to
use module-assistant.
If you got this set and installed linux-headers and so on, then do
the following:
First, enter the line for sid into your /etc/apt/sources.list
 deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free non- free-firmware
then do
apt update
apt install nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver firmware-misc-nonfree
This should install all necessary files and build the kernel module.
Here it did work. However, I had to use 390xx instead of 340xx, but
both built here fine.
After it, reboot and try again if it is working.
Sometimes, nvidia-detect says, use 340xx-legacy, but I had some
cases, where I in real had to use 390xx. So, if 340xx is not working,
try 390xx.
Note: Do NOT upgrade any other files! I suggest, after installing
both packages as above, remove the sid entry from sources.list and do
again an
apt update. Thus you are not going into the danger, to install any
more packages from sid.
If you need bumblebee or primusrun, because you have two GPUs (one in
the CPU and one extern), then use the packages from stable. This will
work!
My notebook is a Lenovo T520 with Intel CPU (and internal Intel GPU)
and also NVidia GPU as external GPU (soldered on mainboard). I have
to use optimus, to get my external GPU.
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I got my information from this site.
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https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
Hope, this helps.
Ah, and last but not least: Big thanks to the lads and guys, who made
340xx and 390xx buildable again, great work! Big big thank you!!!
Here on my system, 390xx is working like a charm.
Good luck!
Hans
</div><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, but maybe it will work.</p></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The solution did indeed allow to install thedriver. But.... it removed at least KDE, and now it won't enter run level 5. I added nouveau.modeset=0 to the "linux" line in grub.cfg, but it's still running the nouveau driver, or at least that's what inxi -G reports:</div><div><br></div><div># inxi -G<
</div><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;">I am running the kernel 6.7.12+bpo-amd64 on my system. This is a backport kernel, but it might also work with other kernels, too.</p><div><br></div><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">You also need to install the build environment, the easiest way is to use module-assistant.</span><br></p><p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-left:0;margin-right:
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