how to install nvidia drivers on debian 11

If you try and succeed, please let us know how you did it and what results you got.Īnd yes, Nouevau does not seem to be up to scratch.Ī few years ago (when XP was mothballed) and decided my definitive move to Linux, I was met with the fact that there were no drivers for my excellent Matrox G550 PCI cards as there were no available drivers for Linux, another proprietary fuck-up.īetween a rock and a hard place, I decided to invest in a whole new setup which is the one I have been using since, with a few HW upgrades.Ī Sun Ultra 24 WS running 2xNVidia FX580 for three 19' monitors using the NVidia 340XX proprietary drivers, works perfect and do not need anything more. It is a patched proprietary driver 'nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver_340.108-11' from 'Debian Sid' repository. I have not attempted to do it, no idea if it works without problems.

That said, it seems that it may be possible to run them on Debian Bullseye/Devuan Chimaera: True to their A1-asshole mentality, they will not release the code for the hardware to be used in newer kernels. The 340XX drivers are propiertary/closed source and Debian cannot supply a 340XX package because Nvidia will not update them for newer kernels. It was Nvidia that dropped support for graphic cards working only with the 340XX driver. The 340XX drivers were not dropped by Debian / Devuan.

is it worth trying to install nvidia-legacy-340xx.

How to install nvidia drivers on debian 11