Re: Nvidia legacy driver install..
On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0700, tony mollica wrote:
> On another note,
>
> just checking to see if anyone has used the nvidia driver (304
> series) install and if there were any problems that arose or needed
> to be resolved either before or after the installation?
I finally got this to work on Debian 8 with an Nvidia 6800 card.
I say "finally" because the upgrade from Debian 7 to 8 must have
left something not quite settled properly and I tracked it down to
a symbolic link that was missing. I reported it as a bug to the
nvidia-users list (IIRC) so the whole exchange should be there.
When I upgraded to Debian 9, I could never get past the black screen.
After a point in the boot process, the screen went black and couldn't be
made to work no matter what I tried. No errors showed up in any log
file. The system could be reached by ssh so everything but the video
was working fine. I finally gave up and installed a Radeon video card.
The system has been working fine ever since. It's an old Dell 8400
tower, with a large (dumb) Viewsonic monitor connected to the VGA port.
Augustine
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