As of October 2017, I found that running the command "nvidia-detect" followed by "install nvidia-driver" (as recommended by the first command) conflicted with the lightdm display manager and prevented graphical login. Does that problem remain? Sincerely, Greg Marks > Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:41:58 -0500 > From: Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: 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 <mailto: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 <http://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? > > > > > > 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. > > -- > Carl Fink carl@finknetwork.com > Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably Literate > http://reasonablyliterate.com
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