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Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

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Gregory Sharp schreef op 2018-11-08 19:01:
> I am currently running stretch with the nvidia display driver.  The
> nvidia-driver package is not installed.  Instead, the 
> nvidia-kernel-dkms
> package and other packages needed for the display driver and CUDA are
> installed.
> 
> While attempting an upgrade to CUDA 9 in backport, I learned that 
> installing
> nvidia-driver (either version: 384.130 or 390.87) would uninstall xorg, 
> gdm3,
> libreoffice, and many other seemingly useful packages.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed?
> 
> 2) What might be a recommended upgrade path for me?

 From bug 903770 [1]:

... the nvidia packages in stretch-backports now require mesa+libglvnd
from stretch-backports.

You could try to install mesa, libglvnd and xorg from backports first.


[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903770

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Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg Gregory Sharp <gregsharp.geo@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-08 19:10 +0100
  Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> - 2018-11-08 22:50 +0100
  Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2018-11-09 13:20 +0100
    Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg Gregory Sharp <gregsharp.geo@yahoo.com> - 2018-11-09 16:40 +0100

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