Re: Nouveau, libgallium?

That's the thing -- I'm on stable-bpo, which has linux 7.0, and the
module did not compile out of the gate for me when I tried the update.

Either way, I'd rather anticipate the problem of getting off
nvidia-driver now on this machine.

Cheers!

On Wed, Jul 1, 2026 at 1:50 AM Alexander V. Makartsev <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 7/1/26 06:30, Boyan Penkov wrote:
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> On Tue, Jun 30, 2026 at 4:44 PM Alexander V. Makartsev
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 7/1/26 00:12, Boyan Penkov wrote:
>
> Hello folks,
>
> I saw another issue that seems to point to mesa and nouveau,
>
> Is there a specific reason to use nouveau driver?
> It always performed like a Proof-of-Concept for me, lacking in hardware support and having stability issues.
> Your VGA (Quadro K2200 is it?) is supported by proprietary Nvidia driver, so my suggestion is to install it from Debian repo and see if your stability issues go away.
> This way you will also check if VGA itself is working fine and doesn't have any hardware defects, which could be hidden and be the source of sporadic stability issues.
>
> Hello Alexander -- yes, fair point, and I don't know how
> unconventional my decision is here, but this card is getting
> increasingly old, barely supported by the official driver,
>
> It is either supported or not. It looks like [1] the version 580.xx will be the final version for your VGA.
> Version 550.xx, which is available for Debian stable [2], supports it.
> If you are on Trixie and use kernel version 6.12, then nvidia-driver version 550.xx should give you the time until the next Debian release, which is usually happen in two years.
>
>  and I don't
> want to have to mess with guessing which Nvidia driver update will
> finally fail to boot period
>
> If something will happen with the new 6.12.xx kernel update and nvidia-driver DKMS module would fail to compile, you will know about it from the console output.
> Even if you ignore the errors and reboot to the black screen on tty7, you will still have access to tty1 (Ctrl+Alt+F1) console and the way to sort it out.
>
> (https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#data-center-d13), so I
> am steering away from nvidia-driver.
>
> So my guiding light here is for this machine, forget the proprietary
> driver and use the FOSS one, but this seems to have shot me in the
> foot...
>
> The choice is yours of course, but getting a stable and performant system for at least two years, until the next Debian stable release, seems like a no-brainer to me.
>
>
> [1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-eu/drivers/details/273196/
> [2] https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Debian_13_.22Trixie.22
>
> --
>
>  With kindest regards, Alexander.
>
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-- 
Boyan Penkov