Quadro P1000 with Debian13

Graphics / Linux Linux
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Hello everyone,

I have already read several guides, tried several tips here in the forum, and also read some topics.

My goal is to use an Quadro P1000 with Debian13.

I need the 580 driver.
However, I simply can’t pin it anymore. Or rather, it is no longer available.

I have activated Contrib and non-free and also configured version locking.
I have integrated the repo with extrepo.

The current driver and much more is displayed and found without any problems.

But not the 580.
How exactly do you have to proceed?

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All the answers you seek are on the Debian wiki, DC drivers section, Debian-13 subsection: NvidiaGraphicsDrivers - Debian Wiki

In short: v580 is available neither in the Debian repos nor in the NV DC D-13 repos, but packages from the NV DC repo for Debian-12 are known to work fine on D-13 as well.

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It works.

Thanks a lot, I’m such a idiot.

My bad.

Thanks for your help; the Debian Wiki provided the solution.

Since updating to linux-headers-6.12.74, it hasn’t been working, not even after a purge and reinstall.

I’ll take a look at it.

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you are welcome :) And don’t be too harsh for yourself: I miss some important parts of various docs on regular basis too ;)

BTW: you may also consider using a newer kernel from the official trixie-backports (currently 6.18.12).

5

Well, my upcycling project is just causing trouble.

However, I’m a bit at a loss, and I’m reluctant to use a different kernel.

It’s just a new-old temporary workstation, and it doesn’t need to do anything special, so I want to save myself the trouble and so on.

Based on the error message, it sounds like a permissions issue:
Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 127 has read and write permissions for those files.

However, the user number keeps changing.

Do you have any ideas?

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it’s almost impossible to say anything based on the limited info: please attach a Bug report file.

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Is this correct here?
There’s a bit more data.

I had to upload it as a file. It was too much for a spoiler; I got a 500 error.

nvidia-bug-report.log (6.6 MB)

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NVIDIA SMI                          | None
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NVIDIA GPU Details                  | None
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NVIDIA Settings                     | None

and

Detected driver type: GPU Driver not installed?
No NVIDIA driver modules detected.

what is the output of sudo dkms status and how exactly did you install the driver? (the exact command you issued to install the packages).

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I noticed that too.

However, there’s also mention of the correct driver.

dkms status:

nvidia/580.126.20, 6.12.73+deb13-amd64, x86_64: installed

I tried two things:

  1. aptitude install nvidia-driver
  2. apt install nvidia-driver
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ok, now you REALLY need to do some homework: please do read the official DC drivers installation guide (linked from the wiki I linked before) how to properly install the driver…

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It finally works.

Thanks again for your help.

Now, though, I really need to figure out why I can’t access the Debian Wiki.

It’s kind of embarrassing to have to ask about this.
Anyway, thanks again!

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the server does suffer from occasional hiccups, but try from another computer or at least a fresh Firefox profile. If this doesn’t help and the problem persists longer than 12 hours, file a bug against wiki.debian.org virtual package including your IP address (sometimes admins get overzealous with spam/AI-crawling blockers).

(FYI: it works fine for me at the moment)