Re: problem with nvidia on debian buster

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

On 10.11.2020 14:04, Andrei POPESCU wrote:

> On Ma, 10 nov 20, 13:32:13, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:
> > 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.
> >       
> This should work fine in the default stable + backports configuration.
>
> Care to provide more details?
>
> Kind regards,
> Andrei
>     
    At some point in the past I had to build backports to buster for
    nvidia drivers from unstable, because newer versions were not yet
    available in buster-backports.
    The whole build and install procedure was a bit messy, because I
    need both AMD64 and i386 packages and updating nvidia drivers later
    from buster-backports using Synaptic wasn't straight forward either.
    So now, after I setup apt preferences, I can see if updated nvidia
    drivers are available in buster-backports via Synaptic and I also
    can see and update nvidia-cuda-toolkit in same manner.
    
    
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With kindest regards, Alexander.

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