{stroke in 2011, brain-damaged with BAD short term memory loss}

I run Debian, stable {Bullseye}. My processor is:
16 x AMD Ryzen 7 5800X 8-core processor.

My graphics processor is llvmpipe.

I have been trying to get a driver for my computer but it ALWAYS fails.

Can anyone give a clue?

Thank you for considering my question, and have a great day!

There are 2 different nvidia drivers.

The FOSS driver nouveau is included with most distros and works by default.

The proprietary Nvidia driver is available in the repo for some distros and can be installed by the package manager. It is also available for download and install directly from Nvidia at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

AFAIK there is no restriction on which CPU is in use for those drivers, AMD or Intel, so they should both work with the ryzen 7 CPU.

Well, technically no GPU driver works with the Ryzen 7 5800x, since it doesn't have a GPU built into it. What's the GPU in the system? Nouveau, as mentioned, works passably well with most, but the newest generation often will require the proprietary drivers in order to get it working.

Oops, I missed this I have to assume that this means you are installing into a VM and not onto hardware. Thus the question would become about the VM container graphics processing and not a hardware question concerning the GPU or the CPU used.

OK, it may be a PITA to understand/get-it-working, but you have given me some ideas.....

probably this helps: https://docs.mesa3d.org/drivers/llvmpipe.html

Holy crap.... you just melted my brain.... thank you.

What reported to you your graphics processor is llvmpipe? It can show up in use with any brand of processor, but it's usually old with ones. What does inxi -Ga report?

I mostly use KDE on all my Linux computer. I started using it when KDE with the "official" release around 1998.

It is part of my system settings, part of "System Information"

{And, yes, I just grabbed inxi}

{{inxi -Ga

Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: N/A alternate: nouveau bus ID: 06:00.0
chip ID: 10de:2489 class ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 compositor: kwin_x11 driver: loaded: nouveau,vesa
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting alternate: nv display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 271x203mm (10.7x8.0") s-diag: 339mm (13.3")
Monitor-1: default res: 1024x768 hz: 76
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.1 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.5 compat-v: 3.1
direct render: Yes}}

{{{Yes, I have two monitors, the second one doesn't work, could be the lack of a Nvidia graphics driver, it could also be that my current computer could support FOUR monitors, so an there are three ports to choose from, I haven't tried the fourth one yet.

This purchase was a mistake from the very beginning, I should have bought a computer from "New Egg", but I couldn't get enough information from the "customer support" as to why this computer has ONLY a 2Tb SSD drive and no HHD.}}}

So looks like from Googling that is a 3060TI. In order to have full (or even decent) functionality with the 3000 series driver, you need the Nvidia proprietary drivers. Nouveau simply doesn't have sufficient support for this new of card yet.

Well..... back to the Nvidia Drivers.... I just need/needed to get the driver I needed, I stopped choosing them at random when I had to, yet again, reinstall the {darn} thing.

Since I have 14 Tb of HHD space, and since I have important backups of everything except for the packages I use, it was no problem.....

This statement is ambiguous. There are multiple Nouveau drivers, so it isn't simple. The foundational two, device and display, are explained here. There's also a Mesa Nouveau. Unfortunately, most Linux distributions automatically install all display drivers, which too often prevents the brand agnostic newer technology (default) DIX display driver from being employed before determining whether proprietary drivers are must-have. Some installers employ some intelligence in determining whether to configure use of the default DIX display driver instead of the Nouveau DDX. For those distros without any such intelligence, removing the Nouveau display driver, whose upstream package name is xf86-video-nouveau, but goes by other names in various distros, should be attempted before that determination is made, especially now that NVidia is providing developers their long-awaited access to specifications needed for competent FOSS driver support.

The inxi kevinbenko used here appears to have been a broken older one. When the nouveau kernel driver supports the GPU, the output should resemble the following: