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Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

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Thank you for your kind reply. I downloaded the driver from www.nvidia.com
for NVIDIA geforce GTX 678 video card driver.

It was a shell script with sh extension.

So until I blacklist nouveau completely from the Debian OS, Nvidia driver
won't install. As a result, I had to blacklist nouveau completely and do
other things.

One of the reasons for installing that driver is Cuda support on Debian.

So I was just saying if there were an easier method to choose between
NVIDIA's driver from their website or nvidia-package and disable nouveau
accordingly that would be great? Because Linux is about giving people
choice alternative options. Isn't it?

Sincerely
Adrian D'Costa

On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 2:54 PM Alexander V. Makartsev <avbetev@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 15.11.2018 23:50, Adrian D'Costa wrote:
>
> Sorry. I don't want to put anybody down. I love Debian Gnu Linux.
>
> But why isn't there an easier way to disable nouveau-module?
>
> Why do we have to open the black-list file with the text editor like nano
> and blacklist it and sometimes still it isn't enough?
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 1:07 PM Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> wrote:
>
>> Adrian D'Costa wrote:
>> > I can disable nouveau-module and do a workaround by recompiling the
>> kernel
>> > and copying the nvidia.ko module to /lib/module and do modprobe nvidia.
>> And
>> > I am using proprietary NVIDIA driver for Linux on Debian flavours. I
>> found
>> > this works for my machine.
>> >
>> >
>> > Why can't both of them coexist with each other?
>>
>> Because they both want to control the same hardware. How would
>> you see them co-existing?
>>
>> -dsr-
>>
> I don't understand what are you talking about. There is no need to do
> things you describe on Debian manually.
>
> Installation of "nvidia-driver" package is very straight forward and it's
> dependencies takes care of nouveau blacklisting for you, among the other
> things.
>
> --
> With kindest regards, Alexander.
>
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Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed? "Adrian D'Costa" <adriandcosta1@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 18:50 +0100
  Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2018-11-15 19:10 +0100
    Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed? "Adrian D'Costa" <adriandcosta1@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 20:10 +0100
      Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed? Samuel Henrique <samueloph@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 20:20 +0100
      Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2018-11-15 21:00 +0100
        Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed? "Tom D." <dtom77@gmail.com> - 2018-11-16 02:20 +0100
          Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed? Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2018-11-16 03:50 +0100
            Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed? "Tom D." <dtom77@gmail.com> - 2018-11-16 04:30 +0100
              Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed? Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2018-11-19 16:40 +0100

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