Re: problem with nvidia on debian buster

["Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com>]

On 08.11.2020 22:05, Vinko Tosevski wrote:

Hi Brad,

Thanks for the quick reply, this is my first experience with the debian-user mailing list and it makes for a positive one.

I ran nvidia-detect every now and then and it doesn't tell me exactly which version to install. Instead, it tells me that my card is "OK" (not legacy, GTX-1070 Ti) and that I should simply go and install nvidia-driver. I did that both times, once running from the standard debian repo, which installs version 418, and once also from debian-backports, which installs version 450 (both is OK per Debian wiki here). Previously this worked fine, but now those processes fail me as well, so something is different this time, I just don't know what.

    Nvidia GTX1060 owner here. Currently running 450.80 nvidia-driver
    version from buster-backports on kernel 4.19 from stable and XFCE as
    desktop environment.
    I want to stay on stable branch for as long as I can, so I found
    that installation of nvidia-driver (with myriad of its additional
    relevant packages) from buster-backports is a bit tricky.
    Personally, I had to setup apt preferences [1], so that only nvidia
    driver packages are installed from "buster-backports" and also their
    updated versions once they become available for installation.
    Show us output of:
        apt-cache policy linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 dkms
    nvidia-driver nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-source
    
    
    [1] man 5 apt_preferences
    
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With kindest regards, Alexander.

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