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  Nvidia, BOINC and Steam Nicolas FRANCOIS <nicolas.francois@free.fr> - 2018-05-16 23:00 +0200
    Re: Nvidia, BOINC and Steam Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2018-05-16 23:20 +0200
    Re: Nvidia, BOINC and Steam Francisco M Neto <fmneto@gmail.com> - 2018-05-22 10:50 +0200

#195817 — Nvidia, BOINC and Steam

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Hi.

I've been working with a stable Debian for a few years now (three major
releases), with backports depots for a few tools I use regularly. I
need a proprietary Nvidia driver for essentially two things : Steam,
because I'm a Civ V gamer, and BOINC, because my computer is up 24h/day.

There was a backport update of the nvidia drivers a few weeks ago, I
tried to migrate. But then Steam wouldn't work anymore (32bits libglx,
or something like this, complaint). I ended up breaking everything
trying to get back to stable.

I finally was able to recover in console, erasing one by one the
backports packages (they cooperate to not let them be deinstalled,
those little bastards !!!)

Now, I have the stable nvidia kernel driver (375.82), but I've noticed
some BOINC apps complaining about not finding a GPU (Seti@Home, for
sure, and I haven't seen Primegrid works for a while...). Djezus, I
HAVE a GPU, it cost me enough (950, not the best one, but the most
powerful I was able to "sell" to my wife :-)

I don't know exactly what to do, if anyone could provide me with a
checklist of what to install to be able to make Steam AND BOINC work
with ANY Nvidia driver version, I would be so grateful...

Thanks for any help.

\bye

-- 

Nicolas FRANCOIS                      |  /\ 
http://nicolas.francois.free.fr       | |__|
				      X--/\\
We are the Micro$oft.		        _\_V
Resistance is futile.		    
You will be assimilated.         darthvader penguin

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On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 22:46 +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I've been working with a stable Debian for a few years now (three
> major
> releases), with backports depots for a few tools I use regularly. I
> need a proprietary Nvidia driver for essentially two things : Steam,
> because I'm a Civ V gamer, and BOINC, because my computer is up
> 24h/day.
> 
> There was a backport update of the nvidia drivers a few weeks ago, I
> tried to migrate. But then Steam wouldn't work anymore (32bits
> libglx,
> or something like this, complaint). I ended up breaking everything
> trying to get back to stable.
> 
> I finally was able to recover in console, erasing one by one the
> backports packages (they cooperate to not let them be deinstalled,
> those little bastards !!!)
> 
> Now, I have the stable nvidia kernel driver (375.82), but I've
> noticed
> some BOINC apps complaining about not finding a GPU (Seti@Home, for
> sure, and I haven't seen Primegrid works for a while...). Djezus, I
> HAVE a GPU, it cost me enough (950, not the best one, but the most
> powerful I was able to "sell" to my wife :-)
> 
> I don't know exactly what to do, if anyone could provide me with a
> checklist of what to install to be able to make Steam AND BOINC work
> with ANY Nvidia driver version, I would be so grateful...
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> \bye
> 
On Buster as no 32 bit available, presumably also for Stretch.
Only way I found to get Steam working well was via flatpak.
as root or sudo,

apt-get install flatpak

then as user 

flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/fla
thub.flatpakrepo

flatpak install flathub com.valvesoftware.Steam

flatpak run com.valvesoftware.Steam


no idea about BOINC

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On Wed, 2018-05-16 at 22:46 +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I've been working with a stable Debian for a few years now (three
> major
> releases), with backports depots for a few tools I use regularly. I
> need a proprietary Nvidia driver for essentially two things : Steam,
> because I'm a Civ V gamer, and BOINC, because my computer is up
> 24h/day.

	I know this reply is coming a bit late but I wasn't able to
check email for the last few days. 

	Steam requires some 32 bit libraries to work. Add the i386
architecture before installing it:

# dpkg --add-architecture i386
# apt-get install steam

	If Steam is already installe, remove it, add the architecture
and reinstall it.

	BOINC is broken and I've given up trying to make it work for
now.


HTH
--Francisco

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