Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-23 Thread Anssi Saari
David writes: > Hi, for your information, this wiki page: > https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian > has some information related to your question, I sometimes wonder if the deb-multimedia repo counts as a Frankendebian making thingy since the wiki page is ambiguous in my opinion. I sometimes

usermod video,audio (was: Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970)

2024-08-15 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/08/2024 06:15, George at Clug wrote: usermod -a -G video,audio [myusername] It should not be necessary. Udev and systemd-logind "uaccess" feature grants permissions to the current active user through ACLs.

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
On 8/15/24 13:47, Hans wrote: Hi Ebon, you said, it is flashing? Or do you have a blamk screen? It's all black, but the backlight flashes. I'll see if making the fixmonitors script correct works. I wrote that script and it uses xrandr to reset the monitors to the way they should be. Now thei

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread David
On Thu, 15 Aug 2024 at 15:46, George at Clug wrote: > On Thursday, 15-08-2024 at 19:05 Hans wrote: > > FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64. > > Is this what is called a "Frankendebian" ? Hi, for your information, this wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian has

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread George at Clug
On Friday, 16-08-2024 at 03:30 Hans wrote: > > What Steam games do you have working under Nvidia? I have watched people on > > YouTube play some interesting and modern games using Nvidia + Linux and > > with ray-tracing, but they have to do a lot of customisation from what I > > could tell. From my

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread George at Clug
On Friday, 16-08-2024 at 03:57 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 00:48:20 +1000, George at Clug wrote: > > On Thursday, 15-08-2024 at 19:05 Hans wrote: > > > FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64. > > > > Is this what is called a "Frankendebian" ? > > No. Back

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread didier gaumet
Le 15/08/2024 à 19:17, e...@gmx.us a écrit : [...] > Aug 15 12:57:24 cerberus lightdm[1085]: Error getting user list from > org.freedesktop.Accounts: > GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name > org.freedesktop.Accounts was not provided by any .service files [...] didier@hp-

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread Hans
> > You don't get security updates for backport kernels, so I'd strongly > oppose it if you're running an exposed server. But for a desktop system > in a normal kind of setup (behind a firewall, or on a private network) > it should be within reasonable expectations of security. Huh, this is an

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 00:48:20 +1000, George at Clug wrote: > On Thursday, 15-08-2024 at 19:05 Hans wrote: > > FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64. > > Is this what is called a "Frankendebian" ? No. Backports are reasonably safe. Installing one doesn't break all your dep

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread Hans
Hi Ebon, you said, it is flashing? Or do you have a blamk screen? This can happen, when the resolutionb of the monitor is out of sync. You can try to create an /etc/xorg.conf file, where you can set the resolution. Xorg.conf is not needed any more, as the monitor is telling the resolution and

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread Hans
> What Steam games do you have working under Nvidia? I have watched people on > YouTube play some interesting and modern games using Nvidia + Linux and > with ray-tracing, but they have to do a lot of customisation from what I > could tell. From my experience basic distribution installations do not

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
On 8/15/24 12:54, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 8/15/24 05:05, Hans wrote: If it is now starting well, you are good and can move your loginmanagers back. After reboot, it should automatically starting the -Server witrh a login greeter. OK, I'll try that. I haven't changed anything but we'll see wh

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
I am currently running in X with the GTX. Only two of three monitors are connected. The right one currently has a VGA cable which doesn't work with this card. In the console, the left (sideways, DVI) worked but the center (HDMI) didn't until "startx". How can I fix that, or is the DVI one the

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread eben
On 8/15/24 05:05, Hans wrote: Hi Ebon, I am running a NVidia GTX-960 iin Debianbookworm and it is working lie a charme. No problems with any of the apps, Greg mentioned. KDE, Steam games and everything elese is working great. FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64. Proba

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread George at Clug
On Thursday, 15-08-2024 at 19:05 Hans wrote: > Hi Ebon, > > I am running a NVidia GTX-960 iin Debianbookworm and it is working lie a > charme. > > No problems with any of the apps, Greg mentioned. KDE, Steam games and > everything elese is > working great. What Steam games do you have wo

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-15 Thread Hans
Hi Ebon, I am running a NVidia GTX-960 iin Debianbookworm and it is working lie a charme. No problems with any of the apps, Greg mentioned. KDE, Steam games and everything elese is working great. FYI I am running a backport kernel, it is 6.9.7+bpo-amd64. If your card i

Re: nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-14 Thread George at Clug
Ebon, I have used GTX 970 and GTX 960 video cards for several years.  I have used them with Bookworm since Bookworm was released, using the Bookworm packaged Nvidia proprietary drivers. As long as the GTX 970 is not faulty, you should have an excellent experience with the GTX 970, ... unless yo

nvidia driver for GTX 970

2024-08-14 Thread Eben King
Short version: Please help me install the Nvidia drivers for a GTX 970 on a Bookworm system. Is there a Q&D guide that doesn't assume I'm an idiot, or is it easy enough to explain? Long version: Yes, I'm the same guy who was considering the Nouveau driver a while back. I decided to try the stock