Vulkan Not Working with nvidia-driver Package

[Titan91]

I'm running a Debian Stretch 64-bit base with a GeForce GTX 1050 Ti card. I've installed nvidia-driver=418.74-1~bpo9+1 from the stretch-backports repository. Nvidia states this development driver supports Vulkan 1.1. I also installed libvulkan1 and vulkan-utils from the same repo. Vulkaninfo is telling me I have an incompatible driver. This is after rebooting and allowing the kernel to utilize the new driver:

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VULKAN INFO
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Vulkan Instance Version: 1.1.70

Cannot create Vulkan instance.
/build/vulkan-IxfvhA/vulkan-1.1.70+dfsg1/demos/vulkaninfo.c:768: failed with VK_ERROR_INCOMPATIBLE_DRIVER

This thread shows a similar issue, which was resolved by recreating the initrd RAMdisk file. Should I try this? Do I also need nvidia-vulkan-common and/or nvidia-vulkan-icd?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=246293

[stevepusser]

It's possible you may need a newer kernel or Mesa from backports to support Vulkan, since Arch has bleeding edge versions of those already.

[Titan91]

Thanks, I've done some research saying the binary Nvidia drivers are needed over Mesa, unless I'm missing something? I’ll try updating the kernel, but the last one that seems to be available for Stretch is what I am running, 4.9.0.9.

[stevepusser]

It probably would be easier to get working on the current release, Debian 10 Buster. Is there a problem with installing that?

[Titan91]

Thanks for the suggestion. Not looking to install Debian Buster at this time, will probably just get an AMD card and use the built-in open source drivers from AMD. Seems people have a lot better luck going that route.