On 15.11.2018 23:50, Adrian D'Costa wrote: > Sorry. I don't want to put anybody down. I love Debian Gnu Linux. > > But why isn't there an easier way to disable nouveau-module? > > Why do we have to open the black-list file with the text editor like > nano and blacklist it and sometimes still it isn't enough? > > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 1:07 PM Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org > <mailto:d...@randomstring.org>> wrote: > > Adrian D'Costa wrote: > > I can disable nouveau-module and do a workaround by recompiling > the kernel > > and copying the nvidia.ko module to /lib/module and do modprobe > nvidia. And > > I am using proprietary NVIDIA driver for Linux on Debian > flavours. I found > > this works for my machine. > > > > > > Why can't both of them coexist with each other? > > Because they both want to control the same hardware. How would > you see them co-existing? > > -dsr- > I don't understand what are you talking about. There is no need to do things you describe on Debian manually.
Installation of "nvidia-driver" package is very straight forward and it's dependencies takes care of nouveau blacklisting for you, among the other things. -- With kindest regards, Alexander. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
