On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 22:46 +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: > Hi. > > I've been working with a stable Debian for a few years now (three > major > releases), with backports depots for a few tools I use regularly. I > need a proprietary Nvidia driver for essentially two things : Steam, > because I'm a Civ V gamer, and BOINC, because my computer is up > 24h/day. > > There was a backport update of the nvidia drivers a few weeks ago, I > tried to migrate. But then Steam wouldn't work anymore (32bits > libglx, > or something like this, complaint). I ended up breaking everything > trying to get back to stable. > > I finally was able to recover in console, erasing one by one the > backports packages (they cooperate to not let them be deinstalled, > those little bastards !!!) > > Now, I have the stable nvidia kernel driver (375.82), but I've > noticed > some BOINC apps complaining about not finding a GPU (Seti@Home, for > sure, and I haven't seen Primegrid works for a while...). Djezus, I > HAVE a GPU, it cost me enough (950, not the best one, but the most > powerful I was able to "sell" to my wife :-) > > I don't know exactly what to do, if anyone could provide me with a > checklist of what to install to be able to make Steam AND BOINC work > with ANY Nvidia driver version, I would be so grateful... > > Thanks for any help. > > \bye > On Buster as no 32 bit available, presumably also for Stretch. Only way I found to get Steam working well was via flatpak. as root or sudo,
apt-get install flatpak then as user flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/fla thub.flatpakrepo flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam no idea about BOINC
