On יום שלישי, 4 ביולי 2017 16:27:21 IDT Mark Fletcher wrote:
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 had to do this for the first time with the upgrade to stretch,
apparently my circa-2009 nvidia geforce card is now "legacy".
I did think the upgrade process was compromised a bit by this, but I
got it working in the end.
The upgrade news said "Don't install the new driver if you have an old
card." Well thanks, but what am I supposed to do instead???
During the upgrade, it pointed out that my card was not supported by the
new driver, and that I needed the legacy driver (previous question
answered). ....
Always, loads of run.
I actually do like Nouveau but it does not play well with Firefox, et. al, and
KDE. If this has been fixed, someone please inform me.
Failing that, I use the 304xx legacy driver.
Installs without a hitch.
xorg.conf is deprecated. Live without it.
I need to blacklist Nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d -- installation provides an
nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf to put there.
Voile!