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

From	"Adrian D'Costa" <adriandcosta1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?
Date	2018-11-15 20:10 +0100
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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-
>

Thread

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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