back in the day I remember using old 7.04 to do something like that , but 8.10 was more stable...

mrmazda:

I did EXACTLY what you had written. The results were slightly different, and as a few reboots...
It still doesn't work.

{sigh}

I will keep working on this, though.

Have yourself a wonderful day!

{PS: I am 60 years-old near the end of 2024, I can no longer run, but my Not-Winter activity is to do daily walks from 4 miles to 15 miles, near the end of walking season, my goal is a 20 mile walk}

By not showing us your input/output from running inxi, you're potentially holding back information that could help us help you. I see nothing in this thread that tells us which NVidia GPU you have, or how it's connected to what kind of display(s).

In desperation, tried to use the NVIDIA proprietary driver, I had to do a reboot, and the reboot "stuck" waiting for CUPS to load/run/whatever.

Question: if my printer is turned off, would actually turning the printer ON resolve that problem?

{PS: I will have to get some logs of the last try, and post them on LinuxQuestions}

Have yourself a wonderful day!

I think people are asking you to post the output of this command: inxi -GSxxz

{crapcrapcrap}

I "sucked it up", and yet again I tried to use the proprietary Nvidia driver.
BUT, just today I did this three times, and every time I did this, I tried to reboot and it ALWAYS wiped out my passwords. I tried three different ways to do this, and I had to reinstall it all over again.

{PS: I have become good at the install process}

THUS, Nvidia does NOT support Linux, according to Linus Torvalds.

So, yet again I am still looking for, via Debian packages, to get graphics WITHOUT using the proprietary Nvidia driver.

I have used a lightweight Desktop... so there is that.

Yet again, I think it was on Debian bullseye, but I CANNOT remember the packages.

There is another option: I could move to Devuan...... but I do love Debian.

Thank you for reading my panicked nonsense, and have yourself a glorious day!

One option you have that may help is to provide information previously requested: inxi -GSaz --vs. You haven't provided any of your NVidia GPU's details. I have 5 NVidia GPUs running on 100% Bookworm and/or Trixie - no NVidia drivers, example of which in post #15 here. NVidia's own support for Linux may be less than desired, but that doesn't stop Debian users from being able to use NVidia's GPUs entirely using FOSS.

OK, I have been putting my self with hell with this issue, but here is an answer that someone asked about a week ago.

I response to the "inxi -Szxx": the answer is:

System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-21-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.8 wm: kwin_x11 dm: LightDM
Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)

I hope that it is helpful.

Have yourself a wonderful day!

Also, I had the result from

sudo inxi -Fxz:

System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-21-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: HP product: OMEN 30L Desktop GT13-1xxx v: N/A
serial: <filter>
Mobo: HP model: 8876 v: 11 serial: <filter> UEFI: AMI v: F.12
date: 11/04/2021
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 3+
rev: 0 cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2300 high: 3800 min/max: 2200/4850 boost: enabled cores:
1: 2200 2: 2200 3: 2200 4: 3800 5: 2200 6: 2200 7: 2200 8: 2200 9: 2200
10: 2200 11: 2200 12: 2200 13: 2200 14: 2200 15: 2200 16: 2200
bogomips: 121372
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau v: kernel arch: Ampere
bus-ID: 06:00.0
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 driver: X:
loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa dri: swrast gpu: nouveau
resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6 256 bits)
direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 High Definition Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 06:00.1
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 08:00.4
API: ALSA v: k6.1.0-21-amd64 status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 0.3.65 status: n/a (root, process)
Server-2: PulseAudio v: 16.1 status: off (using pipewire-pulse)
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8822CE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: rtw_8822ce v: N/A port: e000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
IF: wlo1 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 05:00.0
IF: enp5s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek Bluetooth Radio type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
bus-ID: 1-7:3
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: down
bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: no
address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 6.39 TiB used: 3.23 TiB (50.5%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN530
SDBPNPZ-1T00-1006 size: 953.87 GiB temp: 44.9 C
ID-2: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST3000NC002-1DY166 size: 2.73 TiB
ID-3: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST3000NC002-1DY166 size: 2.73 TiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 937 GiB used: 15.86 GiB (1.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 379.2 MiB used: 101.7 MiB (26.8%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
ID-3: /home size: 1.79 TiB used: 439.63 GiB (24.0%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 477 MiB used: 64 MiB (13.4%)
dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 62.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 0
Info:
Processes: 345 Uptime: 13h 40m Memory: 15.52 GiB used: 6.26 GiB (40.3%)
Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 Packages: 2974
Shell: Sudo v: 1.9.13p3 inxi: 3.3.26
kevin@kevhome:~$

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Maybe too much information, but here it is.

As your issue is about graphics, -Fxz provides a lot of useless info, as you say, while providing an incomplete list of details useful for graphics troubleshooting. As indicated in comment #22, inxi -GSaz --vs would be helpful. -Fxz and -Szxx inxi option sets provide no display connectivity information, among other graphics omissions.

Also, whenever you paste here input/output from running commands, please try to remember to wrap the paste in code tags to preserve the original formatting of commands' output.

OK, the result from inxi -GSaz --vs is as follows:

inxi 3.3.26-00 (2023-03-28)
System:
Kernel: 6.1.0-21-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.1.0-21-amd64
root=UUID=0db04523-0d1d-40ab-9728-ab1600732bb6 ro quiet
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.27.5 tk: Qt v: 5.15.8 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 7
dm: LightDM v: 1.26.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA104 [GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Lite Hash Rate]
vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: nouveau v: kernel non-free: 530.xx+
status: current (as of 2023-03) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-3,HDMI-A-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2 bus-ID: 06:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:2489 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa
dri: swrast gpu: nouveau display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x285mm (40.00x11.22")
s-diag: 1055mm (41.54")
Monitor-1: DP-3 pos: right model: VA249 serial: <filter> built: 2022
res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2 size: 527x296mm (20.75x11.65")
diag: 604mm (23.8") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
Monitor-2: HDMI-A-1 mapped: HDMI-1 pos: primary,left model: Acer G246HL
serial: <filter> built: 2013 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 92 gamma: 1.2
size: 531x299mm (20.91x11.77") diag: 609mm (24") ratio: 16:9 modes:
max: 1920x1080 min: 720x400
API: OpenGL v: 4.5 Mesa 22.3.6 renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 15.0.6 256 bits)
direct-render: Yes

{I just got fom my daily walk, and I am eating my breakfast right now}

Have yourself a great day!

Had you followed instructions, it would have looked as follows:
It shows you're running two displays @1920x1080 each using only FOSS drivers. However something is missing, shown by dri: swrast where dri: nouveau is expected. Also, OpenGL shows llvmpipe instead of direct rendering. I have no NVidia GPUs anywhere as new as yours, so don't know what you might be missing for that to happen. What firmware, mesa, nvidia, vulkan and nouveau packages do you have installed?:Also, what exactly is the trouble you are encountering?

I will go through your response tomorrow, it will probably take me one to two days before I respond.
I will tell you when I do this.

Thank you, and have yourself a wonderful day!

{sigh}

just did a quick modification and IT SEEMS TO WORK FINE!!!!!

mrmazda: You are a gentleman and a scholar.
It was simple/quick/ and easy..... let me write this down in my {hard-copy} notebook {find the notebook find the notebook find the notebook .....whew, found the notebook}

You are truly a nice/great/wonderful person!