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devuantime

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Registered: 2023-08-24

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Devuan6, are there drivers for NVIDIA GeForce GT730M ?

Hello,

if i install Devuan 6, will there be nvidia drivers available to support NVIDIA GeForce GT730M ?
Lenovo T540p.
or is there no chance to get those like in other debian distributions ?
i understood nvidia-tesla-470-driver will be neccessary.
it would be KDE.

Thank you for answers !

Last edited by devuantime (2026-02-18 18:20:05)

kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

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Re: Devuan6, are there drivers for NVIDIA GeForce GT730M ?

hi,

had the T440p several time at dispolsal, and once with GT730m (if rmemeber correctly);
am not sure about the current Nvidia driver situation, but certainly have noticed that once with the dual-graphics setup that the GT730m is not really that much superior to the Intel HD 4600, so in case you are not able to get it to function, you wont loose that much i suppose, and you might even gain a bit of battery life (intel + nvidia can be taxing on battery if you have the dedicated drivers on) -

but wish you best luck with the driver, hope you can get it function.

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

Last edited by kapqa (2026-02-18 18:32:15)

devuantime

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Registered: 2023-08-24

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Re: Devuan6, are there drivers for NVIDIA GeForce GT730M ?

the nvidia driver makes a big difference when even watching normal videos and when playing games. the t540p is a completely other machine without it.
i testet it on LMDE7 with the nouveau driver and it becomes basically a plain 2D and text usable machine, which is better than nothing, but even watching videos in the browser isn't quality. so basically no option to use this laptop without the driver, it's just no fun.
so it looks that also under devuan6 it will be not possible to get it run as i assume.
then i have to continue searching further if any distro will support it anymore.

swanson

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Registered: 2020-04-22

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Re: Devuan6, are there drivers for NVIDIA GeForce GT730M ?

Your card is "Kepler" and, as you say driver 470 is needed. It could possibly be done as said here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comment … rivers_on/

kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

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Re: Devuan6, are there drivers for NVIDIA GeForce GT730M ?

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.

Last edited by kapqa (2026-02-19 07:08:27)

devuantime

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Re: Devuan6, are there drivers for NVIDIA GeForce GT730M ?

@kapqa

as swanson wrote above there is a french site which gives a workaround especially for your card GT 710, and it looks from the feedbacks that it works, but when i came to that point i realized my card isn't supported from 470 vers. but only from 418, so no hope for me but yours should work. i use it now unhappily with noveau and or intel only.

kapqa

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Re: Devuan6, are there drivers for NVIDIA GeForce GT730M ?

@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

Last edited by kapqa (Today 17:35:34)