On 2024-08-01 12:12:31 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: > On Thu, 2024-08-01 at 15:26 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Should I switch to the proprietary nvidia driver on these machines? > > Without NVidia's graphics accelerator, using software rendering with > nouveau is painfully slow. Sometimes even the mouse cursor is frozen.
Well, with an old machine (~ 10 years old), nouveau was indeed painfully slow (e.g. when moving a window or when scrolling), but only with multiple screens. I did not have any issue with a single screen. And my new machines are OK with nouveau. > This is especially the case if you're looking at a web page that has an > annoying video ad playing in a sidebar. > > The NVidia 390 driver is not available for Debian 12 (and it might not > have been available for Debian 11). I wasted a lot of my time, and a > lot of bandwidth in this discussion list, trying to install it. On my > desktop, I installed a Quadro K2200 card to replace by GeForce card -- > so now a computer that I use less frequently is stuck with nouveau. On > a laptop, I'm stuck with nouveau or returning to Debian 10. The NVidia 390 driver is still available in unstable: zira:~> apt-show-versions -a nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver:amd64 390.157-6 install ok installed No stable version No stable-updates version No testing version nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver:amd64 390.157-8 unstable ftp.debian.org No experimental version nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver:amd64/unstable 390.157-6 upgradeable to 390.157-8 I suppose that you can use it even with Debian 12 (I haven't checked the dependencies, though), but you need to request the unstable packages in your sources.list file. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
