Thank you for your kind reply. I downloaded the driver from www.nvidia.com for NVIDIA geforce GTX 678 video card driver.
It was a shell script with sh extension. So until I blacklist nouveau completely from the Debian OS, Nvidia driver won't install. As a result, I had to blacklist nouveau completely and do other things. One of the reasons for installing that driver is Cuda support on Debian. So I was just saying if there were an easier method to choose between NVIDIA's driver from their website or nvidia-package and disable nouveau accordingly that would be great? Because Linux is about giving people choice alternative options. Isn't it? Sincerely Adrian D'Costa On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 2:54 PM Alexander V. Makartsev <avbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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> 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 > ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ > >
