Re: Call for Foundation-supported Project Ideas

From: Andriy Gapon <avg_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 21:43:29 UTC
On 01/12/2021 21:31, Paul Floyd wrote:
> On 11/30/21 18:15, Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> Just as a data point, nvidia-driver-470.86 seems to work well for my GT 730:
>>
>> nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms 
>> 470.86  Tue Oct 26 21:43:42 UTC 2021
>> nvidia0: <NVIDIA GeForce GT 730> on vgapci0
> 
>   I managed to get the 390 drivers working (with nvidia-modeset) but the 470 
> driver gives me
> 
> [   103.404] (WW) NVIDIA(0): The NVIDIA GeForce GT 730 GPU installed in this 
> system is
> [   103.404] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     supported through the NVIDIA 390.xx Legacy 
> drivers. Please
> [   103.404] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     visit http://www.nvidia.com/object/unix.html 
> for more
> [   103.404] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     information.  The 470.74 NVIDIA driver will 
> ignore this
> [   103.404] (WW) NVIDIA(0):     GPU.  Continuing probe...
> [   103.404] (EE) No devices detected.
> [   103.404] (EE)
> Fatal server error:
> [   103.404] (EE) no screens found(EE)

Apparently not all GT 730 cards are made equal.
I bet yours has PCI device ID of 0x0F02 (GF108): 
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/
Mine has device=0x1287 (GK208).


-- 
Andriy Gapon