Am Freitag, 7. Juni 2024, 22:29:30 CEST schrieb Van Snyder: Hi! Sadly to tell, that I treid hard to get 340.xx running in Bookworm. The problem is: You can not get it build with the actual kernel sources.
I checked and the developers missed some dependencies, the NVidia driver needs at build time. You can get running it, if you are using an old kernel, like th eone from buster, maybe bullseye. In these kernels the dependencies and the libs, the sources are searching, are existent. However, maybe you can trick the build by adding the needed dependencies and things, the driver is searching. But I dunno, if this is a good idea. I also tried the orginal sources from nvidia.com, but here the same dependency problem appeared. In some former mails I asked the kernel developers for help, but there was no big interest in fixing things with closed source drivers (however, the kernel module is not closed source as far as I know). Most people are pointing to nouveau, but this is pita. Development in nouveau is also not much any more people told. Thus, with this old graphics card in linux is a problem, although they are in many notebooks people still use (I am running a Lenovo T520, several years old, but still fast enough). It has also a NVidia-card built in which needs 340.xx but I can not use it due to the lack of the kernel driver. Just a hint: Sometimes the nvidia-config module says, you need 340.xx, but this is not always true. My card (with th eolder kernel) was running 390.xx, although th esystem told me, I have to use 340.xx. 390.xx was running like a charm, 340.xx crashed. So it lied. Sorry, that I can help no further and for the bad news, but do not try too much - I fear, you will fail! Have a nice day! Hans > 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.
