Re: problem with nvidia on debian buster

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.

I am not skilled when it comes to building drivers, can you tell me what to do to make sure I have everything it takes for this to work? It might be something along those lines as last time I had the same problem, it happened after a kernel upgrade. Back then I could fix it by reinstalling, which is not the case now, though.

Thanks,

Vinko

On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 5:36 PM Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote:

On Sun, 8 Nov 2020 17:07:20 +0100
Vinko Tosevski <vinko.tosevski@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Vinko,

>Can someone point me in the right direction to solve this problem? Or

Install and run nvidia-detect. That'll tell which is the preferred
driver suite for your card.

You should also be aware that nVidia drivers need to be rebuilt every
time there's a kernel upgrade, so unless you also install all the
relevant build tools (including sources, headers etc. for the kernel)
you may well encounter problems, because there will be a driver/kernel
mismatch.

>should I give up on Debian all together?

A bit drastic, I think. ;-)

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