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Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970



Hi Ebon,


I am running a NVidia GTX-960 iin Debianbookworm and it is working lie a charme.


No problems with any of the apps, Greg mentioned. KDE, Steam games and everything elese is working great.


 

FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64.




If your card is not detected, check, if the neouveau kernel module is blacklisted. There should be an entry in /et/modprobe/ named "nvidia-disable-nouveau.conf", which is creatred during install.


If not, either create one manually or delete the kernel nouveau module manually.


Ok, let us guess, it is already blacklisted and not loaded.




Check., if it is NOT loaded and if nvidia kernel modules ARE loaded:


lsmod | grep nouveau


lsmod | grep nvidia


Is the kernel module "nvidia" running?




Well, for testing purposes move any login manager tewmporarly out of the way (these are /usr/bin/lightdm, /usr/bin/kdm, /usr/bin/sddm and whatever you have.) .


When you now reboot, you will get just the console, but if you give the command "startx" as root, X-Server should start. If NOT, it will show you the reason why. Please tell us, what it said.


If it is now starting well, you are good and can move your loginmanagers back. After reboot, it should automatically starting the -Server witrh a login greeter.



If still not, check, if the kernel does see the hardware. Use the command "lspci" and look, if the graphics card is seen.


If yes, then you are good.





If this does not help, and you need further assistance, please let us know and provide any information you got, especially all messages, exact bahaviour, what you did and how and so on.





List of installed packages:

protheus1:~# dpkg --get-selections | grep nvidia | egrep -v deinstall
firmware-nvidia-gsp                             install
glx-alternative-nvidia                          install
libegl-nvidia0:amd64                            install
libegl-nvidia0:i386                             install
libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:amd64                   install
libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:i386                    install
libglx-nvidia0:amd64                            install
libglx-nvidia0:i386                             install
libnvidia-cfg1:amd64                            install
libnvidia-egl-gbm1:amd64                        install
libnvidia-egl-wayland1:amd64                    install
libnvidia-egl-wayland1:i386                     install
libnvidia-eglcore:amd64                         install
libnvidia-eglcore:i386                          install
libnvidia-glcore:amd64                          install
libnvidia-glcore:i386                           install
libnvidia-glvkspirv:amd64                       install
libnvidia-glvkspirv:i386                        install
libnvidia-ml1:amd64                             install
libnvidia-pkcs11-openssl3:amd64                 install
libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler1:amd64                 install
libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler1:i386                  install
nvidia-alternative                              install
nvidia-cuda-mps                                 install
nvidia-driver                                   install
nvidia-driver-bin                               install
nvidia-driver-libs:amd64                        install
nvidia-driver-libs:i386                         install
nvidia-egl-common                               install
nvidia-egl-icd:amd64                            install
nvidia-egl-icd:i386                             install
nvidia-installer-cleanup                        install
nvidia-kernel-common                            install
nvidia-kernel-dkms                              install
nvidia-kernel-source                            install
nvidia-kernel-support                           install
nvidia-legacy-check                             install
nvidia-modprobe                                 install
nvidia-settings                                 install
nvidia-smi                                      install
nvidia-support                                  install
nvidia-tesla-alternative:i386                   install
nvidia-tesla-driver                             install
nvidia-tesla-driver-bin                         install
nvidia-tesla-kernel-source                      install
nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64                       install
nvidia-vdpau-driver:i386                        install
nvidia-vulkan-common                            install
nvidia-vulkan-icd:amd64                         install
nvidia-vulkan-icd:i386                          install
xserver-xorg-video-nvidia                       install



Good luck!



Best regards


Hans


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