Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread Boyan Penkov
-- Boyan Penkov www.boyanpenkov.com > On Mar 13, 2019, at 07:55, Andrea Borgia wrote: > > Yup, my bad: I assumed that the package still had a reason to be installed. > It might have been a mistake or a requirement of an earlier video card, the > system is more than 10 yrs old and I am not sur

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread Andrea Borgia
Good idea, I'll check the metapackage, though. Il giorno mer 13 mar 2019 alle ore 13:17 Brad Rogers ha scritto: > On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:55:40 +0100 > Andrea Borgia wrote: > > Hello Andrea, > > >Yup, my bad: I assumed that the package still had a reason to be > >installed. It might have been a

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:55:40 +0100 Andrea Borgia wrote: Hello Andrea, >Yup, my bad: I assumed that the package still had a reason to be >installed. It might have been a mistake or a requirement of an earlier The probable reason is that you've got the video drivers metapackage (exact name escape

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:51:58PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Duh :) > Other than feeling a bit stupid [...] Take it easy. Happens to me on a daily basis ;-) On a more positive note, your question and the answers you got might help somebody else to solve their problem... Cheers -- t signatu

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread Andrea Borgia
Yup, my bad: I assumed that the package still had a reason to be installed. It might have been a mistake or a requirement of an earlier video card, the system is more than 10 yrs old and I am not sure anymore if the card is still the original one. Thanks. Il giorno mer 13 mar 2019 alle ore 12:47

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread Andrea Borgia
Duh :) Other than feeling a bit stupid, now I have to find out why the system had that package installed. Thanks, Andrea. Il giorno mer 13 mar 2019 alle ore 12:37 ha scritto: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > > Il giorno mar 12 mar 2019 alle ore 22:34 Boyan Penk

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 12:27:51 +0100 Andrea Borgia wrote: Hello Andrea, >Perhaps a silly question but... how do I know whether my card is a Maybe. >[AMD/ATI] RV370 [Radeon X300/X550/X1050 Series] .It's a Radeon card. nVidia drivers are worthless to you. -- Regards _ / )

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread tomas
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 12:27:51PM +0100, Andrea Borgia wrote: > Il giorno mar 12 mar 2019 alle ore 22:34 Boyan Penkov < > boyan.pen...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > > > I installed nvidia-legacy-390, uninstalled nvidia-legacy-checker, and my > > machine survived a reboot with the GUI coming up n

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread Andrea Borgia
Il giorno mar 12 mar 2019 alle ore 22:34 Boyan Penkov < boyan.pen...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > I installed nvidia-legacy-390, uninstalled nvidia-legacy-checker, and my > machine survived a reboot with the GUI coming up nicely. > Perhaps a silly question but... how do I know whether my card is a

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 09:35:53 +0100 Erwan David wrote: Hello Erwan, >drivers. However, here I got a system in a dirty state, and no standard >way to get it clean (how can I say "Ok revert the partial installation >and keep the installed version" ?). As it happens, I ended up in a similar positio

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-13 Thread Erwan David
On 12/03/2019 19:33, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:03:12 +0100 > Erwan David wrote: > > Hello Erwan, > >> And what should I have done ? Install non working drivers ? > You should have read the warning; It tells which version of the legacy > packages you need to install. Yes it doe

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-12 Thread Boyan Penkov
On 3/12/19 2:03 PM, Erwan David wrote: When upgrading my lenovo T530 I was warned that nvidia-driver does not support anymore my graphic card. Thus I chose to not upgrade in the dialog. Now I have partially installed packages for nvidia driver, so what should I do with this ? And what should

Re: How to get a clean situation for nvidia drivers

2019-03-12 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:03:12 +0100 Erwan David wrote: Hello Erwan, >And what should I have done ? Install non working drivers ? You should have read the warning; It tells which version of the legacy packages you need to install. I'm guessing, based on the fact that you updated today, you're u