Not looking for a solution, really. Ended up installing proprietary nvidia driver because I need the machine for my job. Just wondering if anyone have similar experience.

I have a Thinkpad W530 with K1000M running Linux Mint I am using for work. Was using nvidia driver v390, life was good.

Then came LMDE 6. I was thrilled to have Debian 12 instead of Ubuntu 22.04 as the base, so I decided to take the leap.

Everything went well except for the nouveau driver, which I found to be sub-optimal, particularly with the thermal management.

After the upgrade, the machine became scalding hot especially around the heatsink area. When doing video call, the audio is choppy. It sometimes gets so hot that it restarts itself as I was using it. Almost everytime I leave the laptop on overnight, I’d find the desktop clean even though I left things open, showing it’s been restarted.

I’ve only just installed nvidia-tesla-470-driver, so maybe it’s too soon to tell. However, the machine is not scalding hot anymore.

Anyone had something like this?

  • palordrolap@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    The whole “Debian 12 doesn’t support the legacy 390.x nvidia card driver” really threw me for a loop when I upgraded to LMDE6 (which is based on it).

    I occasionally play older games and Nouveau wasn’t suitable at all (for me anyway). Go to find and install the legacy driver. Oh. Not in the repository. Sinking feeling.

    Had lots of fun trying to get nvidia’s own installer to work. Can’t install it if Nouveau is active. Can’t uninstall Nouveau without another driver available. Catch-22 much??

    However, I am stubborn and can work without a GUI for a short while if I absolutely have to. So I did. And now the legacy driver is installed.

    Of course, the legacy driver .deb is (still) available in Debian Sid (Unstable); Had I not convinced myself it wouldn’t have worked (unfulfilling/unsuccessful experience trying to install other “future” software previously), I might have tried that.

    • pastermilOP
      2·
      1 year ago

      What I ended up doing was simply installing nvidia-tesla-470-driver package and then the system figures out the rest.

      Yeah, it was quite a pain in the neck that they pretty much obfuscate the fact this is possible.