Beginners Questions • Is installing NVidia driver worth it?

Hello,
I just installed Debian 12 on my system and I have an Nvidia graphics card. I did some reading on the Debian wiki page and ended up on the page with Mesa info. I installed the Mesa utilities and did the following with the results below each step.

glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: nouveau
OpenGL renderer string: NV137
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 22.3.6
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.3 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 22.3.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: compatibility profile
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 Mesa 22.3.6
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

jim@debian:~$ glxinfo | grep rendering
direct rendering: Yes

From the output it looks as though the GPU is rendering the graphics and 3D rendering is working. So, with this in mind do I necessarily need to install the NVidia graphics drivers?

Statistics: Posted by jam7755 — 2024-05-20 16:38 — Replies 2 — Views 67

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