I’m trying to install the non-free Nvidia drivers on Debian but it seems that the card is not recognized. I’m wondering if it’s because I’m doing something wrong of if there is no driver for it.
# nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GB202 [GeForce RTX 5090] [10de:2b85] (rev a1)
Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GB202 [GeForce RTX 5090] (rev a1)
Uh oh. Your card is not supported by any driver version up to 535.247.01.
A newer driver may add support for your card.
Newer driver releases may be available in backports, unstable or experimental.
I’m running in stable, but I tried to move to bookworm and see and it’s still 535.247.01 the most recent.
I tried to follow the steps described in 1. Introduction — NVIDIA Driver Installation Guide r575 documentation without success. All the $ variables are not defined. I sent into the URL to try to figure the options for those variables but I get a 404 without the list, so I’m not sure if it’s because it’s hiden, or doesn’t exist.
Any idea how I can get a debian package of a more recent Nvidia driver?
In case someone has the same issue, it works with the open source drive. Not with the closed-source one. Not sure if the performance will be the same but it will unlock my project until the closed-source driver works.
# nvidia-driver-assistant
Detected GPUs:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 - (pci_id 0x2B85)
Detected system:
Debian GNU/Linux 13
Please copy and paste the following command to install the open kernel module flavour:
sudo apt-get install -Vy nvidia-open
Run the suggested command, then reboot.
$ nvidia-smi
Mon Jun 9 11:39:33 2025
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 575.57.08 Driver Version: 575.57.08 CUDA Version: 12.9 |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU Name Persistence-M | Bus-Id Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan Temp Perf Pwr:Usage/Cap | Memory-Usage | GPU-Util Compute M. |
| | | MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
| 0 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 On | 00000000:01:00.0 Off | N/A |
| 0% 30C P8 8W / 600W | 2MiB / 32607MiB | 0% Default |
| | | N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes: |
| GPU GI CI PID Type Process name GPU Memory |
| ID ID Usage |
|=========================================================================================|
| No running processes found |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+