thanks, rolfie,
that seems a sound advice;
there have been issue with some ssd before, will do some more testing;
and yes, system is updated (nor more updates proposed atm)
thank you all.

EDIT:
have been thinkging that have installed Linux wrongly since on startup there is always message:
(failed to locate :EFI : not found) or similar
but the Linux functioned "normally" nvtl until today.

and the SSD is like brandnew, so it should not be the issue.

the system is dualbooting with windows 7, maybe i have setup wrongly (the Linux is UEFI, and windows 7 could be installed in legacy, not sure).
This HP is the first workstation of them that had shipped with UEFI supposedly.

it seem to me to have a reasonable well aerated room  for a laser printer is bigger issue than getting those newer printer to function with computer - laser printers are sure quite a health hazard and would certainly not wanna use one in a room where would work; they need a separate closet, and  proper ventilation, and inhaling the fine dusts might cause all sorts of "issues" would contend, "depression" included.
(no health expert, just my opionion)

have used this guide recently to install a driver for a nvidai card -
it can be adapted; i usppose.
i used this guid however on a fedora 43 install.

what i found helpful is the part with enrolling the ky for secureb-boot.

https://github.com/Comprehensive-Wall28 … dora-Guide

you may be right,

the thing is that when i use "nc" or commander-type for filecopy, the thing copies for nvme-speeds (not in an instant, but in seconds).

i am not sure what is going on there with linux - filemanagers - or my computer as it seems a strange thing for 2026 to occur.

don§t kknow why you would need alien;

you can just extract the tar.gz. file and go into directory and still like "./install.sh" it will ask probably for user password.
that should do it.

yes, you need different versions of the driver for differnt versons of the linux operationg system.

have been using now again epson since the first release of ET and have used most often the driver package directly from epson homepage

thy have been difficult to install for some time on Debian Linux since for some reason they decided to deprecate "lsb" package
(no such issue on previous ubuntu linux)

now with recent driver packages a trick that oi have been using to install lsb-package on debian/devuan is no longer needed.

basically epson provided from the start packages for linux on amd64 and armhf, and now also on arm64;
they are hardly at fault. (imho))

however, with recent linux there is also "pòush" for "driverless" printing.

have found that this can make it hard to use "usb" connection properly with said epson printer - cannot talk fron experience for other printer company well.

you will need the appropriate package and it makes a difference (from my experience) if you use linux mint 20 or 21 or 22 for the like, beccause those packages have changed.

this is the site i normally go to for downloading the packages

https://epson.com/Support/wa00821

the site has been changed lately so it is become bit more difficult to download the driver, especilayy since there seem error involved with firefox browser (at least when using linux)

there used to be asection below the drivers where one could download "old packages" for previous versions of linux (eg. like debian wheezy, jessie etc)

this section is no longer visible .

you might checck with Epson directly if you need an older version of the driver - personally i have not made an archive of those (probably should have)

however, it is possible to use the driver from epson correcctly but it can be involved process;

sometimes you need to manually insert things (at least i had to) - and for this to my understanding the "blame" lies entirely with CUPS software or debian handling of it  (especially more difficult on debian 13/devuan 6)- but i am not knowledgeable enough to entirely understand the whole operation that is involved.

and yes, you should state which operating system you use to begin with.

què tengais suerte.

EDIT: have seen that today the download center is not providing results.
maybe there is error with database
https://download-center.epson.com/searc … anguage=en

@devuantime

thanks for pointing it out,
will test it probably later one since that computer is with devuan 5 if remember correctly, just checked the list, there is gt 730 support, but the (m) is missing.
https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/ … chips.html

but devuan 5 still function perfectly fine for everything that need.

edit: saving this site here foru future reference, maybe can need it sometime
https://linuxcapable.com/install-nvidia … on-debian/

edit2: it seem the driver 418. is from 2019, so probably it will be difficult to install even on devuan 5, so you could always try with devuan 4.0;
have another laptop with an older graphics card nvidia that runs on devuan 3.0 and the newest browser can function just fine (which is what i mostly use on the computer).

https://ibb.co/LhY92wJp

you could try with another browser like chromium , sometimes it function better with CUPS.

also, if you have trouble with login, you could try this approach here, it is outdated, but has helped me several times.

https://www.howtogeek.com/169679/how-to … -computer/

good luck

you could test and see if there is possibility to disable the nvidia card in BIOS and if it makes a difference for you.

(i am having a computer with a GT 710 so would certainly welcome a solution for using the nvidia driver aswell) - there is always the possibiliy to use the nvidia .run installer files, but those tend to be bit difficult to install.

sorry to bother you, just had the wrong image,
with devuan 5 it function

https://devuan.bio.lmu.de/devuan/dists/ … rd-images/

with devuan 6 it function too

https://devuan.bio.lmu.de/devuan/dists/ … ard-images