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#1 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Why does Trixie/Excalibur have two Nvidia driver versions (535 / 550)? » 2025-11-11 23:14:27
@tux_99 You wrote:
Could you please post some links to the main threads you are referring to? I had a quick look but couldn't find anything apart from a few short threads about some edge cases (problems with wayland, old unsupported cards, ...).
As I wrote in the previous message I chose to install the 535 drivers on Devuan Excalibur and they are working fine, no issues so far, NVdec, VDPAU and opengl all work as expected with the applications I tested. Still have to test NVenc with handbrake. The only thing I couldn't get working yet is VAAPI, but that seems to be an issue of the nvidia-vaapi-driver package which isn't part of the official nvidia drivers.
Maybe the debian 13 problems with nvidia are a consequence of systemd? tongue
Here are a few links-
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=163451
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=163515
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=163469
https://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=163655
There are many more. It kept me busy just reading these each day looking for an answer to installing nvidia. I never did get it to work, however. I didn't know Trixie also came with the 535 drivers. Since the 550 was such a problem I started looking around at other distros to see what was going on there. It looks like Debian was the only one having a problem. Most of the distros I checked out were running either the 570 or 580 drivers at the time...but they were working just fine. It's not nvidia that has the problem. Debian itself made some changes (like leaving out dkms).
#2 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Why does Trixie/Excalibur have two Nvidia driver versions (535 / 550)? » 2025-11-10 22:26:03
@tux_99 - That's and interesting find about the 550 drivers not being supported for the last 6 months. Debian Trixie ships with the 550 drivers. There have been many problems with nvidia after Trixie was released. Check out their forum. Tons of threads on this topic...I'm in many of them because, at the time, I was also using nvidia. I bit the bullet and switch to AMD. End of problem for me.
#3 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Can't suspend, reboot, or shut down in a WM » 2025-11-09 19:34:31
Have you tried antiX? This is a Debian based very lightweight distro that's extremely fast. It has a bunch of WM's including ICEWM and fluxbox.
You can shutdown or reboot with ease. It's got a very well developed version of ICE.
It's still based on Bookworm but it has an outstanding GUI for package management - far better than synaptic it's the same one used by MX Linux.
#4 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] AMD or nvidia? » 2025-11-06 15:51:51
Go with the AMD. Nvidia has been a big problem with Debian-based distros since the release of Trixie. Also if you want to distro hop AMD is more likely to work on all distros.
#5 Re: Off-topic » Question: Best/fastest repos in general for each continent? » 2025-11-04 19:10:01
I've always used us.deb.devuan.org.
#6 Installation » Devuan 6 install » 2025-11-03 23:40:24
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I'm happy to say that my install of Devuan 6 went really good today. I didn't have one problem. Very smooth and everything is working as it should. I only installed xfce4 desktop but that's my favorite anyway.
My advice to anyone considering the update...do it!!! I did a fresh install so I can't speak to any upgrade process.
#7 Re: Documentation » [HowTo]Install latests community NvidiaGraphicsDrivers on Daedalus » 2025-03-14 18:55:50
I've never got nvidia to install even by following the instructions above. The msg I get is:
ERRORS were encountered while processing:
nvidia-persistenced
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1).
If I reboot I will get a login screen but when I enter my password it just blinks and comes right back to the login screen.
I'm not sure what to do. I would love to run Devuan but without the nvidia-driver I get way too much screen tearing in my browsers.
#8 Re: Installation » [SOLVED]Can't access deb.devuan.org/* daedalus repositories » 2025-02-01 22:52:59
rolfie - thanks for the quick response.
I agree nothing should be commented out but there were two lines commented out. This was one and the other was the deb-src:
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main non-free-firmware
The line above both said:
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
I uncommented the line and added us. giving me:
deb http://us.deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main non-free-firmware
I then did an update and I had 31 new packages so it looks like everything is working. I also purged firefox-esr and installed firefox, librewolf, brave, and floorp from their web sites using the instructions for Debian. I had no problem with those installs using the Debian scripts without modification.
#9 Re: Installation » [SOLVED]Can't access deb.devuan.org/* daedalus repositories » 2025-02-01 20:20:21
I tried to install devuan yesterday and it hung my system twice trying to use the default mirror. When I changed mirrors it installed but told me it had commented out some entries in the sources.list file. Looks like it only commented out the security but even that is big concern.
Later I was on the web and tried to use the install scripts from firefox, brave and librewolf. All of them wouldn't install because it said it needed use stable instead of daedalus.
As a potential new user I'm really concerned about this. The repository is supposed to be a strong point of Debian-based distros. Knowing that you have to fiddle with things just to install software doesn't instill confidence in me for this distro.
I may give it another shot today, however, since the concept of no systemD is very appealing.
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