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Tom (or Adrian?): what Alexander is saying is that if you ignore theOn 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 from www.nvidia.com for 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?
SincerelyAdrian D'Costa
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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