Desktop freezes with rtx5050 on Linux debian

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hi,

The desktop GUI on my PC with a rtx5050 freezes while running kicad or webbrowser.

What I did :

My home PC with a gigabyte nv-n105tg1_gaming-4gd (rtx1050) in an asus m5a97 motherboard had been running just fine for the last few years. But two weeks ago after a running an apt full-upgrade the latest driver 595.71.05 I downloaded would not install. After some searching I found that I suddenly needed the download a legacy driver 480. Of which offcourse I could not find a newer version then the one I had sitting on my NAS. This latest version would not compile/install no matter what I tried with a few different kernel versions. So I decided to buy a new graphics card and put that in my home PC. Now the PC would not even boot anymore. Maybe something with graphics card PCIe v5 versus motherboard PCIe v2…

Then I removed the rtx1650 card from my work PC and installed that in my home PC and the rtx5050 in my work PC. Compiled/installed the latest drivers on both PCs and thought I was done. No, now when using kicad or the webbrowser on my work PC the system freezes within minutes after starting the program. But the mouse cursor can still be moved around the desktop while all the open windows are completely frozen. Even ctrl-alt-f1 does not work. Also on both PCs using the mouse (cursor) feels like running microslop windows, it is sluggish and lags behind the expected movement all while the CPU is running idle, especially when a program window is doing an update/refresh or so.

The home PC has a 6 core 12 thread AMD CPU with 32 GB.

The work PC has an 8 core 16 thread AMD CPU with 64 GB.

Both systems are up to date on the testing distribution packages and (now) running the latest kernels.

I know I am supposed to provide log files which I would happily provide if I knew where to find those. There are no entries in journalctl that I can find.

Kicad is at version 9.0.8 Both PCs are running the mate desktop.

Firefox is at the latest package maintainer installed version.

I had the PC resources window open and that indicated one thread at 5 % usage, another thread at 4 %, a few others at 1 % and the rest at 0 % while the desktop was frozen.

My work PC desktop is now frozen for some time (during the screensaver with only the file browser and a bash shell running) and after a while the CPU fan goes into overdrive.

On the nvidia linux driver download website is a link for legacy driver, but that does not list the 1050 card (only an id 1050 for gt520m card).

How can I fix this ?

Or can nvidia fix the driver ?

Thanks,

Roelof

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Hi,

So in the meantime I updated the motherboard BIOS and that made the PC work again. I updated the gigabyte b650 gaming x ax v1.1 motherboard to version f41b of 20 april 2026.

Kicad runs and the screensaver became active, and the desktop did not hung itself.

Only thing I wish that would be better is when dragging a window across the desktop are the artifacts on the left and right side of the window. You can clearly see the redraw of the window when dragging.

Roelof

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None of the above models exists. There is GTX 1050 and GTX 1650, I guess you meant one of those, but they are based on different archs (Pascal vs Turing), so it does matter which one (see below).

not sure if it was a typo or if you really allowed some bad documentation to fool you that much. The latest driver branch supporting Pascal (which includes GTX 1050) is v580 (LTS, will be receiving critical updates at least until 2027), while Turing (GTX 1650) is supported by the very latest version (currently v595). I’d would advise you to read some proper documentation, like the Debian wiki.

here are the official guidelines how to create a bug report file.