Re: Request for discussion: Maintaining NVIDIA 470 legacy driver support for future Debian releases

Le 21/07/2026 à 10:50, Walter Muller a écrit :
> Hello Debian community,
> 
> I am writing to ask about the possibility of maintaining the NVIDIA 470 
> legacy driver branch for future Debian releases, including newer stable 
> versions after Debian 13 (Trixie).
> 
> I am currently using a system with an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 (Kepler 
> architecture). The hardware itself is still working well for desktop 
> usage, but newer Linux kernels are becoming increasingly difficult to 
> use with the NVIDIA 470 legacy driver because of kernel API changes.
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Hello,

I you want to keep on using this hardware on Debian I would advise you 
to switch to Unstable(Sid) and install nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver package

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers?highlight=%28nvidia%29#Debian_Unstable_.22Sid.22