On 2024-08-06 14:56 -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote:
> 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?
If your monitor does not run in its native resolution, something has
gone wrong before. You could run "sudo dmesg| grep -E '(drm|nouveau)'"
and show us the results.
Cheers,
Sven
