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Re: Question about nvidea-driver

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Many thanks for the replies.

I checked, and the nouveau driver has been blacklisted.

On 07/16/2020 11:09 AM, Brad Rogers wrote:
> 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
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