Bug#1123801: Please package a driver supporting Blackwell GPUs

[bug.reporter at mail.sheugh.com]

Package: nvidia-driver

Source NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.207

This was the first package that did not cause a problem with CDUA

I'm running Debian Forky. 

I had a failed attempt to install 
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-580.126.09.run 
after that complained about existing Debain nvidia packages, 
and telling me that I would have to install and configure 
the linux-source package. 

I installed the linux kernel source package 
linux-source-6.17.tar.xz
to /usr/src 

then had to ensure that the nouveau module was not getting 
loaded even by the bootloader. 

installed ncurses ncurses-dev pkg-config

then ran make menuconfig

I decidied not to risk configuring any of the components, 
hence this took about four hours to compile, mostly 
because of the wireless modules. 

running make produced 
linux-image-6.17.13_6.17.13-3_amd64.deb
linux-image-6.17.13-dbg_6.17.13-3_amd64.deb
linux-libc-dev_6.17.13-3_amd64.deb
linux-headers-6.17.13_6.17.13-3_amd64.deb

exercising caution, I ran only 
dpkg -i linux-image-6.17.13_6.17.13-3_amd64.deb

and later found that gave problems with glxserver_nvidia
 
hence all of the packages got installed. 

Running the nvidia install package needs something like 

NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-580.126.09.run --kernel-source-path /usr/src/linux-source-6.17

and it is preferable to avoid nvidia attempting to mess with your Xorg stuff. 

It is necessary to boot into your custom kernel which you compiled 
to get the NVIDIA package to run. 

I found that the package 
NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-570.207.run
was the earliest package that didn't give problems. 

Hope that helps.