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If your card is that old, shouldn't the nouveau drivers be quite full-featured anyway? Regardless, you may also want to run a Bookworm kernel with a full Trixie userspace. It should install cleanly once you add the Bookworm repos, and you'd be fully supported for quite some time thanks to LTS. It would technically be a FrankenDebian, but one that might be quite acceptable nonetheless.

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> If your card is that old, shouldn't the nouveau drivers be quite full-featured anyway?

Normally they would probably be, but it looks like my ultra-wide screen is too much to handle for those drivers.

> you may also want to run a Bookworm kernel with a full Trixie userspace.

Good idea indeed. But at this point I'm afraid of borking everything again. I'll just wait for the replacement card I ordered and hope it doesn't make things worse.

> If your card is that old, shouldn't the nouveau drivers be quite full-featured anyway

Unfortunately, nouveau is very limited and barely works (when it works).

Especially on older cards actually! The new hardware, since the 3000 generation or so, moved some "secret sauce" (probably bullshit) into the firmware so that everything that the drivers need to do is something that Nvidia is willing to disclose, so there can be open source drivers that can get the hardware out of low power mode. That lack of "reclocking" crippled performance with nouveau.

Eh, I'd still buy AMD if possible.

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