[Date Prev][Date Next] [Thread Prev][Thread Next] [Date Index] [Thread Index]

Re: Which nvidia driver? xset +dpms issues. Is my video card dead/broken?



On 27.02.2022 04:57, R. Ramesh wrote:
p  nvidia-driver - NVIDIA metapackage
p  nvidia-driver-bin - NVIDIA driver support binaries
p  nvidia-driver-libs - NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES libraries) p  nvidia-driver-libs:i386 - NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES libraries) p  nvidia-vdpau-driver:i386 - Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix - NVIDIA driver

Do I have a better driver that I should try? Is my video card gone bad?

Your graphics adapter is modern enough so you should install "nvidia-driver" package. Additional essential packages are: "nvidia-driver-bin", "nvidia-driver-libs", "nvidia-kernel-support", "nvidia-kernel-dkms", and others.

If all of them already installed, try to re-install "nvidia-kernel-dkms" package.
It will rebuild DKMS module using kernel sources to match kernel in use.
It is a good idea to do this, after every update of kernel image, to make sure a new kernel and DKMS module will be 100% compatible.


--
With kindest regards, Alexander.

⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀
⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org
⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀


Reply to: