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I just saw this thread.
I did some test with help from Fred and Bill a while ago.
Nvidia GeForce 7900GS (in PCs) and nvidia quadro (in Dell D630 laptops).
viewtopic.php?t=3062
viewtopic.php?t=3062&hilit=nvidia&start=39

I downloaded yours and tested it.
Thank you @gumanzoy. Your custom build shows that with the skill and knowledge like yourself, nvidia driver (in Dell D630 laptops with nvidia quadro) can work in Bullseye.

I attempted to redo installing nvidia driver (only with newer kernel) hoping to update the old post, but still could not achieve like you had. I lack the know how. If you have pointers or hint for me to make custom build for Dell D630 nvidia driver, I appreciate it and will experiment with it again - interested to get old nvidia driver working in Bullseye for my D630.

Apart from attempting to redo, I tried to put your nvidia squash in a vanilla Bullseye, hoping for 'miracles' and it didn't work.

Here's a screenshot of your custom build on a Dell D630 -> works great!

Updated/corrected my old post to reflect that it is possible to have legacy nvidia n340 driver in Bullseye.
viewtopic.php?t=3062&hilit=nvidia&start=47

I just don't know how...

@dcung

I use this version nvidia-graphics-drivers-legacy-340xx (340.108-10) unstable

You can add it from snapshot

https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/deb ... acy-340xx/

deb https://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20210501T031424Z/ sid main contrib non-free

@gumanzoy
viewtopic.php?t=3062&hilit=nvidia&start=48

I just got it working. I found some postings and followed it. They were using this repo.
I just use Fred's minimal build with kernel k-5.10.0-13-amd64

# Debian Sid
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

If I didn't see your post and test your custom build, I didn't know for sure that Bullseye will install n340 driver. So, thank you!

Ilianaroe wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:01 am

dcung wrote: Fri Apr 15, 2022 9:37 am

@gumanzoy
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=3062&hilit=nvidia&start=48

I just got it working. I found some postings and followed it. They were using this repo.
I just use Fred's minimal build with kernel k-5.10.0-13-amd64

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# Debian Sid
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free

If I didn't see your post and test your custom build, I didn't know for sure that Bullseye will install n340 driver. So, thank you!

Will you please share those reddits links? It will be really helpful for me

I think those reddit links are shared here: viewtopic.php?p=54972#p54972
EDIT: As stated in one of these reddit posts https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comment ... &context=3:

then reboot and all is working with the proprietary driver. I then removed the repository from apt sources.list

Important IMO to remove the Sid repo from sources.list after done, otherwise you get a mixed Bullseye/Sid system, which I wouldn't recommend (sooner or later gives problems).

fredx181 wrote: Sun Apr 24, 2022 10:26 am

Important IMO to remove the Sid repo from sources.list after done, otherwise you get a mixed Bullseye/Sid system, which I wouldn't recommend (sooner or later gives problems).

Yes , I did it on a 'disposable' install, ie. delete afterward. Only did it to satisfy my curiosity.
Now I know, StretchDog, BusterDog, Bullseye, and Sid can install the driver on this old laptop of mine. I still use StretchDog mainly though.

Update 2022.07.12

Fresh rebuild 01-filesystem.squashfs. Add man-db and keep eng manpages.

Add i386 libs to amd64 build: libjpeg62-turbo:i386 libncursesw5:i386 libncursesw6:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libxcursor1:i386 libxext6:i386 libxft2:i386 libxinerama1:i386 zlib1g:i386 libpng12-0:i386

Modify build script mklive-bullseye

mklive-bullseye-gumanzoy -cli mklive-bullseye64-xfce-gumanzoy.conf

+[ "$ARCH" = "amd64" ] && dpkg --add-architecture i386

Disable smartd

+echo path-exclude=/etc/init.d/smartmontools > etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/smartd
+echo path-exclude=/usr/sbin/smartd >> etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/smartd

libpng12 install

+if [ "$ARCH" = "amd64" ]; then
+! [ -f var/cache/apt/archives/libpng12*_i386.deb ] && \
+wget --no-check-certificate https://github.com/doglinux/bulldog/raw/master/i386/libpng12-0_1.2.50-2+deb8u3.2_i386.deb \
+-P var/cache/apt/archives
+dpkg --force-overwrite -i var/cache/apt/archives/libpng12*_i386.deb
+fi

I prefer to keep eng manpages, but delete /usr/share/doc and /usr/share/info
Copy code from livekit Slax cleanup to ungzip manpages.

+# Unzip gzipped files (man pages), so LZMA can compress 2times better.
+# First we fix symlinks, then uncompress files
+# $1 = search directory
+uncompress_files()
+{
+   local LINK LINE
+
+   find "$1" -type l -name "*.gz" | while read LINE; do
+      LINK="$(readlink "$LINE" | sed -r 's/.gz$//')"
+      FILE="$(echo "$LINE" | sed -r 's/.gz$//')"
+      ln -sfn "$LINK" "$FILE"
+      rm -f "$LINE"
+   done
+   find "$1" -type f -name "*.gz" | xargs -r gunzip
+}
+
+uncompress_files etc/alternatives
+
 if [ "$KEEPMANDOC" = "FALSE" ]; then
 find /usr/share/doc -type f -exec rm -f {} 2> /dev/null \;
 find usr/share/man -type f -exec rm -f {} 2> /dev/null \;
 find usr/share/gtk-doc -type f -exec rm -f {} 2> /dev/null \;
 find usr/share/info -type f -exec rm -f {} 2> /dev/null \;
     chown -R man:root usr/share/man
+else
+find usr/share/doc -type f -exec rm -f {} 2> /dev/null \;
+find usr/share/gtk-doc -type f -exec rm -f {} 2> /dev/null \;
+find usr/share/info -type f -exec rm -f {} 2> /dev/null \;
+rm -f usr/local/bin/man
+rm -fr usr/share/man/??
+rm -fr usr/share/man/??.*
+rm -fr usr/share/man/*_*
+uncompress_files usr/share/man
+    chown -R man:root usr/share/man
 fi

Add same behavior to apt2sfs, apt2sfs-fullinst and remastercow scripts.
Make /usr/local/lib/cleanup function and import it to scripts.

Hi @gumanzoy , first, thanks for your work !
But... tried your mklive mod by running ./mklive-bullseye-gumanzoy -cli mklive-bullseye64-xfce-gumanzoy.conf and failed because debootstrap not found.
I noticed that you commented out download and install debootstrap, any reason for that ?

# wget --no-check-certificate http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/debootstrap/debootstrap_1.0.89_all.deb -O debootstrap_1.0.89_all.deb
# dpkg -i debootstrap_1.0.89_all.deb

Uncommented these lines and the build went fine.
Note that the older debootstrap version is on purpose, once I tried newest version and it didn't follow the --no-merged-usr switch, which is needed, otherwise e.g. /bin /lib become symlinks which may conflict with some custom programs, e.g. remaster and with sfs loading.

fredx181 wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:14 am

Note that it's on purpose that it's an older debootstrap version, once I tried newest version and it didn't follow the --no-merged-usr switch, which is needed, otherwise e.g. /bin /lib become symlinks which may conflict with some custom programs, e.g. remaster and with sfs loading.

debootstrap 1.0.123 from bullseye (my host system) works fine with --no-merged-usr
I use this version for my builds.

gumanzoy wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:27 am

fredx181 wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:14 am

Note that it's on purpose that it's an older debootstrap version, once I tried newest version and it didn't follow the --no-merged-usr switch, which is needed, otherwise e.g. /bin /lib become symlinks which may conflict with some custom programs, e.g. remaster and with sfs loading.

debootstrap 1.0.123 from bullseye (my host system) works fine with --no-merged-usr
I use this version for my builds.

Ok, but still the script should install debootstrap IMO (1.0.123 then if you prefer), it's a dependency.

fredx181 wrote: Mon Jul 25, 2022 9:32 am

Ok, but still the script should install debootstrap IMO (1.0.123 then if you prefer)

I commented it out. Because debootstrap already installed in my system. And i don't suggest this patch for general version of script.
But if no have debootstrap - script show msg "You don't have debootstrap installed.\nIt's a dependency of this program.\n Please install it."

Maybe it will be good to have separate options KEEPMAN KEEPDOC KEEPINFO
and if KEEPMAN="TRUE", but KEEPLOCALES="FALSE" - delete manpages other than eng.

gumanzoy wrote:

I commented it out. Because debootstrap already installed in my system. And i don't suggest this patch for general version of script.
But if no have debootstrap - script show msg "You don't have debootstrap installed.\nIt's a dependency of this program.\n Please install it."

Yes, that's right.

Maybe it will be good to have separate options KEEPMAN KEEPDOC KEEPINFO
and if KEEPMAN="TRUE", but KEEPLOCALES="FALSE" - delete manpages other than eng.

Good ideas, but at the moment I'm not sure if I'll do that, it's rather complicated to implement in the GUI and CLI (and also in the .conf files) (and the script is already over-complicated IMO)