1. Do you have such a graphics card? On my present machine I have the NVIDIA G98 [GeForce 8400]
2. Do you use the nouveau driver? Yes.
3. What desktop environment? mate-desktop-environment
4. What is the performance of your card like with nouveau? Have you done any tweaks?
I'm pretty satisfied with the performance of my old graphics card, which is OK for my purposes but of course, if I wanted to use, for example, more resource-intensive software like the kde-plasma-desktop or play certain games, I think it'd be a different matter. And using such an old graphics card frees me from any temptation to install the non-free blob or echo Linus' famous expletive, which is similar to the fsck command, "Fsck nVidia!", but which I won't repeat here for fear of offending any tender sensibilities.
I had a few freezes when using firefox-esr after I upgraded to bullseye but these seem to have gone after a few tweaks:
I'm still not sure exactly what caused the freezes but I haven't had any since installing firmware-misc-nonfree and firmware-realtek and I disabling hardware acceleration in firefox-esr under Settings --> Performance. I also set Content process limit to 6 and a few other things which may or may not've helped like turning off search suggestions.
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$ inxi --graphics |grep Device-1
Device-1: NVIDIA G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] driver: nouveau v: kernel
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# nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] [10de:06e4] (rev a1)
Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation G98 [GeForce 8400 GS Rev. 2] (rev a1)
Your card is only supported by the 340 legacy drivers series, which is only available up to buster.
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$ vrms
Non-free packages installed on debian
firmware-misc-nonfree Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kerne
firmware-realtek Binary firmware for Realtek wired/wifi/BT adapters
nvidia-detect NVIDIA GPU detection utility
Thanks for reading this.