Nvidia driver major versions are not interchangeable or always
upgradeable. The newer drivers than mine, i.e., the ones whose major
version numbers are higher than 525, have not in the past worked with my
graphics card. This is why multiple major versions are available in the
repositories.
nvidia-detect tells me to install nvidia-driver. nvidia-driver is major
version 525, as far as I can tell.
If I should be using a different driver then I am not being told to do
that by the latest available versions of the tools that the
documentation (
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#nvidia-detect ) says I'm
supposed to use to determine which driver to use.
Perhaps the problem is indeed that I should be using a different
version. But if that's the case, then there is still a bug in testing
that needs to be fixed, because (a) upgrading from testing did not
automatically upgrade me to the version I should be using and (b) the
tooling that is supposed to tell me what version to use is not telling
me to use a newer version.
On 6/20/24 8:59 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
On 20/06/2024 14.17, Jonathan Kamens via pkg-nvidia-devel wrote:
Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms
Version: 525.147.05-7~deb12u1
Why do you expect the driver from stable to work with the kernel from
testing?
Please use the driver from testing.
Andreas
