On 08.11.2020 22:05, Vinko Tosevski wrote:
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 <https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers>). Previously
this worked fine, but now those processes fail me as well, so
something is different this time, I just don't know what.
Nvidia GTX1060 owner here. Currently running 450.80 nvidia-driver
version from buster-backports on kernel 4.19 from stable and XFCE as
desktop environment.
I want to stay on stable branch for as long as I can, so I found that
installation of nvidia-driver (with myriad of its additional relevant
packages) from buster-backports is a bit tricky.
Personally, I had to setup apt preferences [1], so that only nvidia
driver packages are installed from "buster-backports" and also their
updated versions once they become available for installation.
Show us output of:
apt-cache policy linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64 dkms
nvidia-driver nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-kernel-source
[1] man 5 apt_preferences
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With kindest regards, Alexander.
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