On 8/6/24 14:43, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2024-08-06 13:11 -0400, Eben King wrote:
Hi, I got a new-to-me EVGA Nvidia GTX 970. I understand the Nouveau driver
handles this card. Is this correct?
Some features are missing, e.g. there is no accelerated video decoding.
Running a desktop should not be a problem though.
Even unaccelerated it's probably much faster than my existing "card"
(whatever came with the i5).
Also Grub gets a different video mode, maybe 24x80 instead of so tiny as to
be nearly illegible.
That may be a sign that the firmware for the card is not installed,
AFAIK it is necessary to do anything useful with it. In Debian 12 and
earlier the firmware is in the package firmware-misc-nonfree, in
Weird. That package appears to be installed, as are libdrm-nouveau2 and
xserver-xorg-video-nouveau, says Synaptic. Could they be dormant and need
to be activated to work?
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