New Driver?

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2018-06-05 18:20, Joshua Blagden wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
>     I recently purchased a GT 1030. When I put it in my PC (running
> Debian Testing), it wouldn't work. After some discussion in the Debian
> IRC channel, I found out that the source of the issue is an
> incompatibility between the Nvidia driver that's in the Debian
> repository and the Xorg driver. The folks there said I would need a
> newer version of the proprietary driver to get my GPU working on Debian
> Testing. When can we expect that? Or should I just install Debian
> testing instead?

The 384.xx driver you need will part of stable after the next point
release (planned for June 23rd), currently available in
stable-proposed-updates. Or you could use the 390.xx driver from
stretch-backports.


Andreas