Michael Galea via talk said on Wed, 11 Sep 2024 18:24:27 -0400
On 2024-09-11 15:31, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
From: Michael Galea via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
I have a GeForce GT 520 [GF119]
It seems that Nouveau should support this hardware. <https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html#NVC0>
I don't actually know how to switch between Nouveau (NV) and the Nvidia legacy legacy driver.
I don't know if Nouveau performs well enough for you.
I guess you could test from a live USB system -- that way you would not mess up your current system. During the heat of the battle, I did try nouveau, but without success. I didn't do much debugging though as I have had pretty poor results with nouveau in the past. At that point I downgraded the kernel, downgraded the nvidia-legacy source and got the system up and running again.
I have currently put the kernel and nvidia source packages on 'hold', a method in Debian that prevents their being upgraded. But that is only going to hold the tide back for so long. I have gotten 10 years out of this hardware, it overheats in the summer, I have to re-encode some HEVC content and I want something small and power efficient instead.
My experience is that nVidia often conflicts with Linux, regardless of what driver set you use. I just stay away from nVidia, and will continue to until they reveal their API to Open Source authors. Radeons have always worked just fine for me. SteveT Steve Litt http://444domains.com