Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

Note: top-posting fixed, some quotes trimmed.

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 2:54 PM Alexander V. Makartsev <avbetev@gmail.com> wrote:

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. On 11/15/2018 08:13 PM, Tom D. wrote:

Thank you for your kind reply. I downloaded the driver fromwww.nvidia.comfor NVIDIA geforce GTX 678 video card driver.

It was a shell script with sh extension.

So until I blacklist nouveau completely from the Debian OS, Nvidia driver won't install. As a result, I had to blacklist nouveau completely and do other things.

One of the reasons for installing that driver is Cuda support on Debian.

So I was just saying if there were an easier method to choose between NVIDIA's driver from their website or nvidia-package and disable nouveau accordingly that would be great? Because Linux is about giving people choice alternative options. Isn't it?

Sincerely

Adrian D'Costa

Tom (or Adrian?): what Alexander is saying is that if you ignore the direct download from the nVIDIA site, and just apt install nvidia-driver it will download a copy of the proprietary driver and install it for you, while simultaneously removing nouveau. That's the Debian Way to install the commercial driver.

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