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Re: Question about nvidea-driver

From Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Question about nvidea-driver
Date 2020-07-16 17:10 +0200
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On Thu, 16 Jul 2020 09:18:54 -0400
"Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

Hello Stephen,

>system?  Also, is it possible to direct the installer to use the 
>nvidia-driver rather the nouveau package.

Difficult;  There are multiple versions of the nvidia driver available.
What you need/want to install depends on various factors, not least of
which is the model of card being used as some cards will require one of
the legacy drivers, rather than the current driver.  Adding the relevant
tests to the installer for what is a fairly small number of people
installing Debian with nvidia GFX cards is probably not worth the
effort.

Further to what Georgi wrote;  The nvidia driver works with the
nouveau driver still in place (i.e. the nouveau driver gets blacklisted).
Of course, you can still remove the nouveau driver if you wish to do so.
Personally, I never bothered - disk drive space is cheap these days.

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Question about nvidea-driver "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-07-16 15:20 +0200
  Re: Question about nvidea-driver Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2020-07-16 15:50 +0200
  Re: Question about nvidea-driver Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2020-07-16 17:10 +0200
    Re: Question about nvidea-driver "Stephen P. Molnar" <s.molnar@sbcglobal.net> - 2020-07-16 17:50 +0200
  Re: Question about nvidea-driver Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2020-07-16 18:40 +0200
    Re: Question about nvidea-driver Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-07-18 13:30 +0200
      Re: Question about nvidea-driver Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com> - 2020-07-18 16:10 +0200

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