Re: Question about nvidea-driver

[Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com>]

don't know much, but from my notes:
I installed, for Buster, with Synaptic:
nvidia-detect
nvidia-driver

Now on another machine, setting up Bullseye, I get  ----not found!

inxi says-
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] driver: N/A
  Device-2: NVIDIA GF106GL [Quadro 2000] driver: nouveau v: kernel
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting unloaded: 
fbdev,vesa
  resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: NVC3 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.1.2

On 7/16/20 6:18 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I am running Buster on my Linux Platform.
>
> The installer selected the xserver-xorg-videau-nouveau, 
> libdrm-nouveau2 and libdrm-nouveau22:i386 packages.  However, I have a 
> GK208 [GeForce GT 710B] (rev a1) card on the platform and have 
> installed the nvidia-driver package.  Everything seems to work without 
> any problems.
>
> My question is can I remove the nouveau package without breaking my 
> system?  Also, is it possible to direct the installer to use the 
> nvidia-driver rather the nouveau package.
>
> Thanks in advance.