I struggled for a while to make my nVidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 graphics card work with Debian Buster (10.3.0), and I would like to share with you the solution I found.
Here a brief log of what I tried:
I installed Debian 10 with GNOME Desktop (using default nouveau driver) and I have a system freeze just after gdm login.
I tried to customize a xorg.conf file for nouveau without success.
Then I tried to install proprietary nvidia driver. Below nvidia-detect command (in non-free repositories) output:
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# nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
00:0d.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] [10de:03d0] (rev a2)
Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2)
Your card is only supported by the 304 legacy drivers series, which is only available up to stretch.
So I tried to install 304 driver from Nvidia.com (last version NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.137.run).
I spare you the details but I didn't found a way of installing it, I think this driver is not compatible with linux kernel 4.19.0 or xserver-xorg version.
Finally, the solution I found is to install LXDE desktop and select lightdm.
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# apt install lxde
EDIT: It seems that installing firmware-misc-nonfree can also help. I couldn't try it yet.
Just I had a poor screen resolution in my ACER AL1916W screen.
To solve this I used cvt command, I created a simple /etc/X11/xorg.conf file and added a Modeline to it.
(note that you can test the screen mode given by cvt using xrandr command, but this will be lost at reboot)
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# cvt 1440 900
# 1440x900 59.89 Hz (CVT 1.30MA) hsync: 55.93 kHz; pclk: 106.50 MHz
Modeline "1440x900_60.00" 106.50 1440 1528 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync
EDIT: Note I used Option "NoAccel" in order to solve system freeze when launching LibreOffice. This disables hardware acceleration, if you don't have this issue better don't use this Option.
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Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Monitor0"
VendorName "ACER"
ModelName "AL1916W"
Modeline "1440x900_60.00" 106.50 1440 1528 1672 1904 900 903 909 934 -hsync +vsync
Option "PreferredMode" "1440x900_60.00"
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nouveau"
BusID "PCI:0:13:0"
Option "Monitor0"
Option "NoAccel"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Device0"
Monitor "Monitor0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900" "1024x768" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Layout1"
Screen "Screen0"
EndSection
EDIT: Curiously GNOME desktop is also working now. This would mean that some LXDE dependency solves the problem with graphic card ??
Sorry, I think this post must be moved into HELP/Hardware section of the forum.