On Wednesday, 07-08-2024 at 03:11 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?
With Debian Bookworm, I had Nvidia GTX 970 and Nvidia GTX 960 cards working on
Nouveau, depending on what "working" means to you. The experience was limited,
so most of the time I ran Debian packaged Nvidia drivers, until recently
replacing it with Radeon RX 6600.
Using the Radeon RX 6600 allows people to install KDE ('out of the box', as the
phrase goes) and also run more games through Steam. Unless Nvidia support
greatly improves, I do not plan on using Nvidia GPUs. I should have been
implementing Radeon GPUs a long time ago. That's my view, for what it is worth.
George.
>
> 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.
>
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> "Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer" - Dilbert
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