NVidia's driver search at https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx says that many drivers still available with Debian 12 support this card. I don't know which one is installed by "apt install nvidia-drivers" but it might be 535. You can get a script to install a specific driver from the search page. I installed 535 for my GM107L (K2200) without any problems. Run nvidia- detect and see which one it recommends.
On Tue, 2024-08-06 at 20:43 +0200, 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. > > > If so, do I just install the packages, install the card, tell the > > BIOS to > > use it, power off, move the monitors, and that's it? With the card > > connected, I can log in from console, but X won't run. > > > > Also Grub gets a different video mode, maybe 24x80 instead of so > > tiny as to > > be nearly illegible. Probably fine. Yeah I could probably change > > it if I > > wanted. I did change the console. > > 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 > unstable and testing it has been relocated to a new > firmware-nvidia-graphics package. > > Cheers, > Sven >
