On 15.11.2018 23:50, Adrian D'Costa wrote:
Sorry. I don't want to put anybody down. I love Debian Gnu Linux.
But why isn't there an easier way to disable nouveau-module?
Why do we have to open the black-list file with the text editor like nano and blacklist it and sometimes still it isn't enough?
On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 1:07 PM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
Adrian D'Costa wrote:
> I can disable nouveau-module and do a workaround by recompiling the kernel
> and copying the nvidia.ko module to /lib/module and do modprobe nvidia. And
> I am using proprietary NVIDIA driver for Linux on Debian flavours. I found
> this works for my machine.
>
>
> Why can't both of them coexist with each other?
Because they both want to control the same hardware. How would
you see them co-existing?
-dsr-
I don't understand what are you talking about. There is no need to do things you describe on Debian manually.
Installation of "nvidia-driver" package is very straight forward and it's dependencies takes care of nouveau blacklisting for you, among the other things.
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