Bug#1014304: nvidia-tesla-450-driver: Not all hardware works with nvidia-graphics-drivers-tesla-470

[Andreas Beckmann]

Control: reassign -1 nvidia-tesla-470-driver
Control: tag -1 upstream

On 20/10/2022 16.54, David Headland via pkg-nvidia-devel wrote:
> Package: nvidia-tesla-450-driver
> Version: 450.203.03-1

> As per bug 981114, unfortunately the 470 driver does not work with my
> hardware, whereas the 450 driver does - I have to switch monitors
> regularly, and with anything newer than 450 this then causes a loss of
> sync on the display.

Have you tried the 510 driver series? (Either as nvidia-driver in sid or 
as nvidia-tesla-driver in sid or testing.)

> I suppose there's not a lot that can be done about this, it doesn't
> seem to affect many people so I may just have to bite the bullet and
> change my video card, but I wanted to at least point this out here.


Andreas