<div dir="ltr"><div>Note that this fix won't work for everyone as Nvidia dropped support for a bunch of older GPUs with version 590. I used to use the Nvidia repo, but I had to go back to the Debian repo after my GTX-1060 stopped working.</div><div><br></div><div>I can't find the official Nvidia notice about this but here's an article about it: <a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/geforce-590-driver-branch-is-the-first-without-feature-support-for-gtx-9-and-10-series-gpus-linux-release-marks-the-end-of-the-line-for-graphics-cards-that-defined-an-era">https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/geforce-590-driver-branch-is-the-first-without-feature-support-for-gtx-9-and-10-series-gpus-linux-release-marks-the-end-of-the-line-for-graphics-cards-that-defined-an-era</a></div><div><br></div><div>I used François Gannaz's patch on my sid system and that fixed my problem.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 9:47 PM Thomas More <<a href="mailto:debian@gilead.dev">debian@gilead.dev</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Package: nvidia-kernel-dkms<br>
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On Mon, 18 May 2026 17:24:14 +0200 (CEST) Giacomo Mulas<br>
<<a href="mailto:giacomo.mulas@inaf.it" target="_blank">giacomo.mulas@inaf.it</a>> wrote:<br>
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> it appears that the latest git version of at least the open version of the<br>
> nvidia kernel module on github (595.71.05) is compatible with 7.0.x kernels.<br>
> Since usually the closed version is aligned, at least in terms of kernel<br>
> interfaces, this may be the case for that as well. Would it be feasible to<br>
> pull these versions (or a somewhat previous one known to be compatible with<br>
> new kernels) at least in experimental, even without letting get into sid or<br>
> testing? This would provide at least a partial working alternative to keep<br>
> kernel updates on hold for people depending on GPU offloading support on <br>
> nvidia.<br>
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It turns out that it's actually quite easy to install Debian-packaged<br>
versions of the latest drivers straight from upstream:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downloads</a><br>
<a href="https://old.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1jyzgrx/the_correct_way_to_install_newer_nvidia_drivers/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://old.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1jyzgrx/the_correct_way_to_install_newer_nvidia_drivers/</a><br>
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For Debian unstable on amd64, all I had to do was basically:<br>
<br>
$ wget <a href="https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian13/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://developer.download.nvidia.com/compute/cuda/repos/debian13/x86_64/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb</a><br>
# dpkg -i /path/to/cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb # this installs a keyring and adds a repository<br>
# apt update && apt upgrade<br>
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and voila - 595.71.05 built fine against 7.0.7+deb14-amd64. I rebooted, and<br>
now I'm successfully running 595.71.05 (I haven't yet tested extensively).<br>
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-- System Information:<br>
Debian Release: forky/sid<br>
APT prefers oldstable-security<br>
APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')<br>
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)<br>
Foreign Architectures: i386<br>
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Kernel: Linux 7.0.7+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)<br>
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE<br>
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US<br>
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash<br>
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)<br>
LSM: AppArmor: enabled<br>
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Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-dkms depends on:<br>
ii dkms 3.4.0-1<br>
ii firmware-nvidia-gsp [firmware-nvidia-gsp] 595.71.05-1<br>
ii nvidia-kernel-support 595.71.05-1<br>
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Versions of packages nvidia-kernel-dkms recommends:<br>
ii nvidia-driver 595.71.05-1<br>
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nvidia-kernel-dkms suggests no packages.<br>
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