I have several Debian/unstable machines, all with a Nvidia card. On one of them, due to a bug in nouveau in the past, I use the proprietary nvidia driver: libnvidia-legacy-390xx-* packages. And the initrd size is reasonable:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 66937544 2024-07-30 11:27:32 initrd.img-6.9.12-amd64 Note that on this machine, firmware-nvidia-graphics is not installed. According to its description, this package is apparently for the nouveau driver: Package: firmware-nvidia-graphics [...] Source: firmware-nonfree Version: 20240709-1 Suggests: initramfs-tools Conflicts: firmware-misc-nonfree (<< 20230625-3~) Description: Binary firmware for Nvidia GPU chips This package contains the binary firmware for Nvidia graphics chips using the nouveau driver. On other machines, I use the nouveau driver, but firmware-nvidia-graphics now makes the initrd.* file much larger. See the increase: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 69879473 2024-07-19 02:11:58 initrd.img-6.7.12-amd64 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112644015 2024-08-01 13:01:40 initrd.img-6.9.12-amd64 which may be a problem with the small /boot partition (500 MB). This is currently OK, but if I want to have 3 or 4 kernels (e.g. due to future bugs), this might not be possible. Should I switch to the proprietary nvidia driver on these machines? -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
