Installed Debian, system won't boot due to an apparent USB problem

[frank3422]

I get the following error messages when trying to boot:
[ 2.925572] nouveau 0000:01:00:0: unknown chipset (1b6000a1)
[ 7.088738] usb 1-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 22.704606] usb 1-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 28.592616] usb 1-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 44.208509] usb 1-6: device descriptor read/64, error -110
[ 54.776608] usb 1-6: device not accepting address 5, error -71

usb 1-6: device not accepting address 5, error -71
usb 1-6: Device not responding to setup address.
usb 1-6: Device not responding to setup address.
usb 1-6: device not accepting address 6, error -71
usb usb1-port6: unable to enumerate USB device

After that it just sits there. I waited about ten minutes and nothing happened. The only usb devices connected to the pc are a wired keyboard and a usb dongle for a wireless mouse, which both worked during setup. I've only had this pc for about a month and I've had nothing but problems with it. It's probably irrelevant but when I tried Kubuntu it kept freezing while using Firefox, then I tried Fedora and the sound defaults to homepods connected to my wifi network and wouldn't let me change it. I wanted to try Debian to see if it would work for me but am now having this problem.

Thanks

 

[dos2unix]

[ 2.925572] nouveau 0000:01:00:0: unknown chipset (1b6000a1)

nouveau is a nvidia driver. what GPU (graphics card) do you have?

 

[frank3422]

nouveau is a nvidia driver. what GPU (graphics card) do you have?

5060 ti

 

[osprey]

5060 ti

Lately I've been looking at graphics cards and saw this one which I presume is the one mentioned in post #3: RTX 5060Ti.

The card is not in the list of supported cards for nouveau shown here: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html
However, in the linux kernel 6.16, there was some initial support for the RTX 50 series which uses the nvidia "Blackwell Architecture". So, it's worth installing a kernel beyond that version to get nouveau working. Debian stable has 6.12 kernel at this moment when I looked, but debian testing has a 6.18 version at the moment on machines here.

To remain with debian stable, installing a later kernel can be done in several ways. Users often use the backports repo. If the later kernel isn't there, one has to wait for it to appear. Alternatively, compile one's own which can be done the debian way. There's a debian kernel handbook that may help with that.

The alternative to nouveau is the nvidia proprietary closed source drivers, but apparently, there may be an issue with that in that debian appears to lack support at the moment.

Consulting Gemini AI, it wrote:

AI Overview
The NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti is
supported on Linux, with strong performance observed using
the 575.51.02+ beta driver (or newer) on modern distributions
like Ubuntu 25.04. It offers competitive gaming, compute,
and ray tracing performance, with 16GB models showing excellent
results in 1440p gaming, often matching the RTX 4070.

The 575 beta driver however does not appear in a search of all debian repositories
at https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. The seach query replied thus:

You have searched for packages that names contain 575 in all suites,
all sections, and all architectures.

Sorry, your search gave no results

At https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#sid-550, the text says:

Currently no Debian-packaged version supports
Blackwell GPUs (for example RTX 50xx series)

There is the alternative of downloading the official nvidia drivers from nvidia here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/. One needs to enter the relevant details at that site. It's often not recommended to do by distros for a few reasons to do with package management and the need to recompile the driver for each new kernel. The above is the extent at the moment of my research for myself. There may be more developments that I'm not yet aware of to factor in.

 

[frank3422]

Lately I've been looking at graphics cards and saw this one which I presume is the one mentioned in post #3: RTX 5060Ti.

The card is not in the list of supported cards for nouveau shown here: https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html
However, in the linux kernel 6.16, there was some initial support for the RTX 50 series which uses the nvidia "Blackwell Architecture". So, it's worth installing a kernel beyond that version to get nouveau working. Debian stable has 6.12 kernel at this moment when I looked, but debian testing has a 6.18 version at the moment on machines here.

To remain with debian stable, installing a later kernel can be done in several ways. Users often use the backports repo. If the later kernel isn't there, one has to wait for it to appear. Alternatively, compile one's own which can be done the debian way. There's a debian kernel handbook that may help with that.

The alternative to nouveau is the nvidia proprietary closed source drivers, but apparently, there may be an issue with that in that debian appears to lack support at the moment.

Consulting Gemini AI, it wrote:

AI Overview
The NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti is
supported on Linux, with strong performance observed using
the 575.51.02+ beta driver (or newer) on modern distributions
like Ubuntu 25.04. It offers competitive gaming, compute,
and ray tracing performance, with 16GB models showing excellent
results in 1440p gaming, often matching the RTX 4070.

The 575 beta driver however does not appear in a search of all debian repositories
at https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages. The seach query replied thus:

You have searched for packages that names contain 575 in all suites,
all sections, and all architectures.

Sorry, your search gave no results

At https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#sid-550, the text says:

Currently no Debian-packaged version supports
Blackwell GPUs (for example RTX 50xx series)

There is the alternative of downloading the official nvidia drivers from nvidia here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/. One needs to enter the relevant details at that site. It's often not recommended to do by distros for a few reasons to do with package management and the need to recompile the driver for each new kernel. The above is the extent at the moment of my research for myself. There may be more developments that I'm not yet aware of to factor in.

Thanks, but it sounds like I should just stick with Kubuntu for now. It just sucks I can't use Firefox or any of it's derivatives.

 

[kc1di]

Kubuntu is not a bad choice. Debian is not always up to date on newer cards. They can usually be made to work but takes time and work to do so. You have to choose if it's a challenge you want to take on.

 

[Brickwizard]

quite a common complaint
have you disabled secure boot and windows quick-start in the BIOS/UEFI
have you enabled USB boot in the BIOS/UEFI
does your machine have a primary USB port [ usually the one closest to the power supply] try it
check BOOT order in the UEFI. make sure network boot is disabled or the last on the list
Finally make sure you have downloaded the correct distribution build for your machine [x64 or AM64 for AMD and Intel standard chips, Arm for arm coded chips