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dell/precision/7520: use stable nvidia driver (not legacy)

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Stefano Pacifici 2025-08-29 11:58:46 +02:00
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dell/precision/7520/README.md
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## Nvidia Driver ## Nvidia Driver
The choice of the `legacy_390` driver is based on looking for PCI Device ID `10de:1436`. On the [nvidia driver site](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/) which should indicate the The choice of the `stable` driver is based on looking at the family of the card on [nouveau wiki's code names page](https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html) obtained with:
driver, the exact device isn't listed. However, we can see
[here](https://linux-hardware.org/?id=pci:10de-1436-103c-1909) has nvidia driver "375.82 and newer" listed. Since the ```bash
newest nvidia drivers don't support legacy devices, the closest version newer than 375.82 was chosen. $ lspci -k -d ::03xx
```
Both `Quadro M2200 Mobile (GM206GLM)` and `Quadro M1200 Mobile (GM107GLM)` belong to the **Maxwell** family which is still supported by the stable driver.

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dell/precision/7520/default.nix
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enable32Bit = lib.mkDefault true; enable32Bit = lib.mkDefault true;
}; };
nvidia = { nvidia = {
package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.legacy_390; package = config.boot.kernelPackages.nvidiaPackages.stable;
nvidiaSettings = lib.mkDefault true; nvidiaSettings = lib.mkDefault true;
modesetting.enable = lib.mkDefault true; modesetting.enable = lib.mkDefault true;
open = lib.mkDefault false; open = lib.mkDefault false;