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    From Ant@3:633/10 to All on Saturday, April 25, 2026 19:48:45
    Subject: Does Debian stable's trixie fully support very old GeForce 8800 GT video card?

    $ lspci | grep -i nvidia
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800 GT] (rev a2)

    I had to use my onboard Intel GPU since I couldn't get it to work. Even dmesg shows nouveau errors when not using my old GeForce GPU's display as shown in https://zimage.com/~ant/temp/dmesg.txt. I have everything updated in Debian. I read only up to buster has the driver support? If that's true, then does that mean I can't use my old GeForce 8800 GT video card at all?

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
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  • From Alexis Estherose@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, May 07, 2026 13:40:55
    Subject: Re: Does Debian stable's trixie fully support very old GeForce 8800 GT video card?

    You'd need to fork X.Org or the Nvidia driver, in other words, no not in a plug-and-play fashion. I went through this with a AM2 desktop with a Nvidia iGPU, was easier and cheaper to grab a cheap OEM AMD card to get up and running. I have the R5 430 and the HD 7470, and they both work fine on
    Trixie and Ubuntu

    "Ant" <ant@zimage.comANT> wrote in message news:10sj5qt$137ed$1@dont-email.me...
    $ lspci | grep -i nvidia
    01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 8800
    GT] (rev a2)

    I had to use my onboard Intel GPU since I couldn't get it to work. Even
    dmesg shows nouveau errors when not using my old GeForce GPU's display as
    shown in https://zimage.com/~ant/temp/dmesg.txt. I have everything updated
    in Debian. I read only up to buster has the driver support? If that's true, then does that mean I can't use my old GeForce 8800 GT video card at all?

    Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
    --
    "God has chosen you to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches
    of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory. We proclaim him, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone perfect in Christ." --Colossians 1:27-28
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  • From Marco Moock@3:633/10 to All on Monday, May 18, 2026 11:46:46
    Subject: Re: Does Debian stable's trixie fully support very old GeForce 8800 GT video card?

    Am 25.04.26 um 21:48 schrieb Ant:
    I had to use my onboard Intel GPU since I couldn't get it to work. Even dmesg shows nouveau errors when not using my old GeForce GPU's display as shown inhttps://zimage.com/~ant/temp/dmesg.txt. I have everything updated in Debian. I read only up to buster has the driver support? If that's true, then does that mean I can't use my old GeForce 8800 GT video card at all?

    This is a question for the nouveau people. There is a mailing list https://lists.freedesktop.org/postorius/lists/nouveau.lists.freedesktop.org/

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