Alex Wahl composed on 2025-08-10 01:21 (UTC-0400):
> Count me in among those who used the Tesla 470 drivers and now am totally out
> of luck as they've been discontinued in Trixie. Nouveau is proving to be
> absolutely useless, both on XFCE and MATE. Can I at least compile from
> upstream or are we just totally and utterly out of luck?
Perhaps it would help others to help you if you shared your GPU model. My old
entry-level Tesla seems perfectly fine, far from "useless", on pure Trixie FOSS:
# aptitude search video-nouv
p xserver-xorg-video-nouveau - X.Org X server -- Nouveau display driver
# inxi -GSaz --za --hostname
System:
Host: mcp61 Kernel: 6.12.38+deb13-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 14.2.0 clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm parameters: root=LABEL=<filter>
ipv6.disable=1 net.ifnames=0 noresume consoleblank=0 mitigations=off
Desktop: TDE (Trinity) v: R14.1.5~[DEVELOPMENT] tk: Qt v: 3.5.0 wm: Twin
v: 3.0 with: kicker vt: 7 dm: 1: TDM 2: XDM Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 13
(trixie)
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210] vendor: eVga.com. driver: nouveau
v: kernel non-free: series: 340.xx status: legacy (EOL~2019-12-xx) last:
release: 340.108 kernel: 5.4 xorg: 1.20 arch: Tesla process: 40-80nm
built: 2006-2013 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 ports:
active: DVI-I-1,HDMI-A-1 empty: VGA-1 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
class-ID: 0300 temp: 63.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 compositor: Twin v: 3.0 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa dri: nouveau gpu: nouveau
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3600x1200 s-dpi: 120 s-size: 762x254mm (30.00x10.00")
s-diag: 803mm (31.62")
Monitor-1: DVI-I-1 pos: right model: Dell P2213 serial: <filter>
built: 2013 res: mode: 1680x1050 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 90 gamma: 1.2
size: 473x296mm (18.62x11.65") diag: 558mm (22") ratio: 16:10 modes:
max: 1680x1050 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 pos: primary,left model: NEC EA243WM
serial: <filter> built: 2011 res: mode: 1920x1200 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1)
dpi: 94 gamma: 1.2 size: 519x324mm (20.43x12.76") diag: 612mm (24.1")
ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 1920x1200 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia nouveau platforms: device: 0 drv: nouveau
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: nouveau surfaceless: drv: nouveau x11:
drv: nouveau inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 compat-v: 3.3 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.7-2 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: NVA8 device-ID: 10de:0a65 memory: 983.4 MiB
unified: no
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.309 layers: 4 device: 0 type: cpu name: llvmpipe (LLVM
19.1.7 128 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.0.7-2 (LLVM 19.1.7)
device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: xcb,xlib
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo x11: xdriinfo,
xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
#
Note: the nouveau display driver is neither required nor installed here.
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