Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 2026-08-01, The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 01/08/2026 13:29, Carlos E. R. wrote:
>
>> I did have NVidia, and it was trouble.
>> 
>> I have an old desktop that can not get the proprietary driver because it 
>> stopped being updated for my card, and I had to revert to the open driver.
>> 
> Didn't the old one still work?

I was in a similar situation.  I have Nvidia cards and generally have
had no problems, at least as long as I use their proprietary drives.
(Nouveau would lock up too often for me.)  However, when I updated one
machine to Debian Bookworm, it wouldn't accept the driver I was using;
I upgraded to a newer driver and it wouldn't accept my graphics card.
Replacing the graphics card with a newer model got things going again.

>> I switched to AMD, and no more troubles.

So far Nvidia stuff still works for me.

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