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Re: Question about nvidea-driver

From Peter Ehlert <peter@sdi-baja.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Question about nvidea-driver
Date 2020-07-16 18:40 +0200
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don't know much, but from my notes:
I installed, for Buster, with Synaptic:
nvidia-detect
nvidia-driver

Now on another machine, setting up Bullseye, I get  ----not found!

inxi says-
Graphics:
   Device-1: AMD Cedar [Radeon HD 5000/6000/7350/8350 Series] driver: N/A
   Device-2: NVIDIA GF106GL [Quadro 2000] driver: nouveau v: kernel
   Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: modesetting unloaded: 
fbdev,vesa
   resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
   OpenGL: renderer: NVC3 v: 4.3 Mesa 20.1.2

On 7/16/20 6:18 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote:
> I am running Buster on my Linux Platform.
>
> The installer selected the xserver-xorg-videau-nouveau, 
> libdrm-nouveau2 and libdrm-nouveau22:i386 packages.  However, I have a 
> GK208 [GeForce GT 710B] (rev a1) card on the platform and have 
> installed the nvidia-driver package.  Everything seems to work without 
> any problems.
>
> My question is can I remove the nouveau package without breaking my 
> system?  Also, is it possible to direct the installer to use the 
> nvidia-driver rather the nouveau package.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>

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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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