Are there Nvidia drivers on Trixie repositories right now ?

rudu

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Jul 26, 2023, 10:00:06 AM7/26/23

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Hi there,

Switching from the nouveau driver to some nvidia-driver does not seam to
be possible on my laptop running Debian Testing/Trixie.
Now, it can be found right here apparently :
https://packages.debian.org/trixie/nvidia-driver
Am I missing something ?
Some information about my system is following, just ask for more if needed.

Thanks

Rudu

$ LANG=C inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 530 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GM204GLM [Quadro M3000M] driver: nouveau v: kernel
Device-3: Bison ThinkPad P50 Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB
Display: server: X.org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 driver:
X: loaded: modesetting
unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: iris,nouveau gpu: i915 tty: 158x38
resolution: 1920x1080
API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console. Try -G --display

$ LANG=C nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM204GLM
[Quadro M3000M] [10de:13fa] (rev a1)

Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GM204GLM [Quadro M3000M] (rev a1)
Uh oh. Failed to identify your Debian suite.

# LANG=C apt policy nvidia-driver
nvidia-driver:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Bookworm_ - Official Snapshot
amd64 NETINST 20221031-03:18]/ bookworm main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Bookworm_ - Official Snapshot
amd64 NETINST 20221031-03:18]/ bookworm main

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie main contrib non-free-firmware
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie main contrib
non-free-firmware

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main
contrib non-free-firmware
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main
contrib non-free-firmware

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main contrib
non-free-firmware
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main contrib
non-free-firmware

# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.

David Wright

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Jul 26, 2023, 11:20:05 AM7/26/23

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On Wed 26 Jul 2023 at 15:39:49 (+0200), rudu wrote:
> Switching from the nouveau driver to some nvidia-driver does not seam
> to be possible on my laptop running Debian Testing/Trixie.
> Now, it can be found right here apparently :
> https://packages.debian.org/trixie/nvidia-driver
> Am I missing something ?

> # cat /etc/apt/sources.list
> # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Bookworm_ - Official Snapshot
> amd64 NETINST 20221031-03:18]/ bookworm main
>
> #deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Bookworm_ - Official Snapshot
> amd64 NETINST 20221031-03:18]/ bookworm main
>
> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie main contrib non-free-firmware
> deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie main contrib
> non-free-firmware
>
> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main
> contrib non-free-firmware
> deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main
> contrib non-free-firmware
>
> deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main contrib
> non-free-firmware
> deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main contrib
> non-free-firmware

You appear to be lacking non-free in your sources.list.

Cheers,
David.

rudu

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Jul 26, 2023, 5:20:06 PM7/26/23

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Le 26/07/2023 à 17:12, David Wright a écrit :

# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Bookworm_ - Official Snapshot
amd64 NETINST 20221031-03:18]/ bookworm main

#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux testing _Bookworm_ - Official Snapshot
amd64 NETINST 20221031-03:18]/ bookworm main

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie main contrib non-free-firmware
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie main contrib
non-free-firmware

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main
contrib non-free-firmware
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security main
contrib non-free-firmware

deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main contrib
non-free-firmware
deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main contrib
non-free-firmware

You appear to be lacking non-free in your sources.list.

Cheers,
David.

Thank you David, but I thought that non-free-firmware should be enough for the new testing repositories.
Should I had "non-free" to "main contrib non-free-firmware" ?
Sounds weird to me ... ??

Rudu

Greg Wooledge

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Jul 26, 2023, 5:20:06 PM7/26/23

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On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 11:15:13PM +0200, rudu wrote:
> Thank you David, but I thought that non-free-firmware should be enough for
> the new testing repositories.
> Should I had "non-free" to "main contrib non-free-firmware" ?
> Sounds weird to me ... ??

The non-free-firmware section only contains firmware. Not drivers.

If you need to build non-free drivers (e.g. nvidia) you'll need both
sections.

rudu

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Jul 27, 2023, 4:20:06 AM7/27/23

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Thanks to David and Greg, I finally understood the difference between
firmwares and drivers ...
;)
Indeed adding the non-free section to my source.list was what I needed.
Sorry for the noise.

Nice Day to all
Rudu

Bret Busby

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Jul 27, 2023, 5:00:08 AM7/27/23

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I believe that a proverb exists, with wording something like
"It is better to look a fool for the time that it takes to ask a
question, than to look a fool forever, for not asking the question.".

If you did not ask, you would not have learned, and, your having asked,
can mean that others can also learn what you have learned, from your
having asked the question.

People should never have to apologise for asking to learn what they do
not know.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............