Thank you, Sir. I understand now. I am Adrian. So please feel free to call me by that name.
Again thank you for clarification. Sincerely Adrian D'Costa On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 9:42 PM Carl Fink <ca...@panix.com> wrote: > Note: top-posting fixed, some quotes trimmed. > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 2:54 PM Alexander V. Makartsev <avbe...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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. >> >> >> On 11/15/2018 08:13 PM, Tom D. wrote: >> >> 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 >> >> >> Tom (or Adrian?): what Alexander is saying is that if you ignore the > direct download from the nVIDIA site, and just > > apt install nvidia-driver > > it will download a copy of the proprietary driver and install it for > you, while simultaneously removing nouveau. That's the Debian Way to > install the commercial driver. > > -- > Carl Fink c...@finknetwork.com > Thinking and logic and stuff at Reasonably > Literatehttp://reasonablyliterate.com > >
