I have Debian 9 running on this hardware (from a different hard drive) with the Nouveau driver. That's fine. What I'm trying to do, though, is specifically to try out Debian 10.neodeb wrote:@dajames Well you could go back to Debian 9 stretch, with the nvidia-304 proprietary driver (made easy by sgfxi) but oldstable and lack of Nvidia-304 driver upgrades will get old fast. And Nouveau is worse.
Incidentally: I notice that that the current Ubuntu release (Disco Dingo - 19.04) [running from a liveUSB] runs nouveau just fine with a 5.0 kernel (newer than in Debian 10) ... but that is running Wayland rather than Xorg, so quite a different environment.
I'd say that it's nVidia not supporting the new Xorg rather than Xorg not supporting the nVidia driver. I suppose one has to expect a vendor to stop supporting older cards at some time (but I'd hope for rather longer support than this -- especially for a built-in chipset). The Nouveau driver is Open Source, though, and should be able to be kept going for far longer.Since Debian 10 buster stable cut-off the Nvidia unmaintained nvidia-304 via xorg >1.20, then I was starting to have some hacking success by patching the nvidia installer for nvidia-304 as working in LinuxMint ...
Yes, that's been on my mind as I've been noticing some elevated (though not alarmingly so) temperatures in the recent hot weather.Side Note: You probably need the change the thermal paste under your CPU chip too. MIne is Athlon X2 with (not used) Nvidia 6150E built in also.
When I built that PC I wanted a socket AM2 motherboard with onboard graphics and support for ECC memory. The board I have seemed to tick the right boxes. At the time nVidia were supposedly easier to work with than AMD/ATI so it seemed a reasonable choice.Please don't support Nvidia. ...
Things have changed.