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8600GT problem

#1 Post by phoenix_art »

Hi!

As I noticed, unfortunately the new debian 11 is not compatible with the official nvidia driver for the 8600GT, as it always results in a black screen when installing. Which is the latest debian version that I can use with this type of card with the official nvidia driver? The opensource driver is unfortunately very slow and unstable.

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Re: 8600GT problem

#2 Post by kedaha »

Hi there,
If using bullseye,
# apt install nvidia-detect
and
# nvidia-detect
will give the answer.
I think it may only be supported up to buster: nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver.
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#3 Post by sunrat »

nvidia-detect won't detect a non-existent driver. :|

Only thing I can think of is edit your GRUB boot to add "nomodeset" to the boot options line which may take you to a login. Then install the package firmware-misc-nonfree which contains heaps of Nvidia firmware that could help (not 100% sure on this).
8600GT was released 15 years ago so is old by computer standards but it should work OK with Nouveau driver.

I would be buying a new graphics card. You could use Buster which currently still has several years of support life.
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#4 Post by @ttila »

I was curious but those drivers are available for sid:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/nvidia- ... 0xx-driver.

It is strange... :o

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340.108 driver is available from Nvidia website too which is an option. I usually avoid non-repo drivers partly due to complications with installing and updating but it should work. Then again, Nouveau should also work.
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#6 Post by kedaha »

sunrat wrote: 2022-05-07 12:28 nvidia-detect won't detect a non-existent driver. :|
My nvidia card is unsupported too but nvidia-detect shows:

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$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] [10de:0a65] (rev a2)

Checking card:  NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] (rev a2)
Your card is only supported by the 340 legacy drivers series, which is only available up to buster.
But nouveau is fine for my purposes.
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#7 Post by sunrat »

@kedaha thanks, I stand corrected. I don't have a legacy card so couldn't check that.
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As I’ve mentioned, with using nouveau my system was completely slow and laggy.

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phoenix_art wrote: 2022-05-09 10:42 As I’ve mentioned, with using nouveau my system was completely slow and laggy.
Yes you mentioned that. What was the result of following suggestions posted?
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#10 Post by phoenix_art »

I've tried finally your suggestion installing and use Buster but it couldn't install the official driver - black screen after reboot. I've finally changed my system on this really old computer to the newest version of Linux Mint where the official driver installed succesfully with the built in driver manager and works very well - also with older games. I'll keep this until I can change my videocard to a newer one. Thanks anyway.

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