Bug#954788: nvidia-legacy-check can't be installed

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 23/03/2020 15.16, Stefano Simonucci wrote:
> when I try to install the package nvidia-legacy-check (in order to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit) I get the 
> following message:
> *** The following unsupported devices are present in the machine:
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GF119M [GeForce GT 
> 520MX] [10de:1051] (rev a1)
> Aborting nvidia driver installation.

> So I'm not able to install nvidia-cuda-toolkit with my GPU.

Because it wouldn't work.

The corresponding NEWS entry in the driver packages:

nvidia-graphics-drivers (396.18-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  LEGACY GPUs: If you have a GeForce 410M/510/605/610M/705M/710M/810M/820M,
  GeForce GT 415M/420/420M/425M/430/435M/440/445M/520/520M/520MX/525M/530,
  GeForce GT 540M/545/550M/555M/560M/610/620/620M/625/625M/630/630M/635M,
  GeForce GT 640/640M/645/705/720M/730, GeForce GTS 450,
  GeForce GTX 460/460M/465/470/470M/480/480M/485M/550/555/560/570/570M/580,
  GeForce GTX 580M/590/670M/675M, NVS 310/315/4200M/5200M/5400M,
  Quadro 500M/600/1000M/2000/2000M/3000M/4000/4000M/5000/5000M/5010M/6000,
  Quadro 7000, Quadro NVS 4200M, Tesla C2050/C2070/C2075/M2070/M2075/M2090,
  Tesla T20, i.e., any GPU based on the GF100/GF100M/GF100GL/GF100GLM,
  GF104/GF104M/GF104GLM, GF106/GF106M/GF106GL/GF106GLM,
  GF108/GF108M/GF108GL/GF108GLM, GF110/GF110GL, GF114/GF114M, GF116/GF116M,
  GF117M, GF119/GF119M chips or a variant thereof (that is anything from
  the Fermi architecture),
  DO NOT INSTALL THIS RELEASE!!!
  Use the nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver, nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms
  packages instead.

 -- Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org>  Sun, 22 Apr 2018 13:59:45 +0200

IIRC, CUDA 9.1 (in stretch-backports) was the last CUDA toolkit version
that works with the 390 legacy driver series.

Andreas