Your message dated Fri, 8 Sep 2017 12:02:19 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#840818: nvidia-driver: Breaks system on a fresh
installed debian; Buggy, but overwrites nouveau driver
has caused the Debian Bug report #840818,
regarding nvidia-driver: Breaks system on a fresh installed debian; Buggy, but
overwrites nouveau driver
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Package: nvidia-driver
Severity: serious
Tags: upstream
Justification: Policy 1.1
After installing nvidia-driver on a fresh installed debian (or on it's
distributions too), the driver could not be loaded causes to boot in
low-graphics mode.
The main problem is here, that the package overwrites the xserver-xorg-nouveau
driver and it's hard to be restored, even purging nvidia-driver and
reinstalling/reconfiguring xserver-xorg-nouveau. For me, a complete new Debian
installation was the solution.
The package was working earlyer on Linux Mint Sarah, but now breaks both system.
# Hardware configuration:
Dell Precision M4600
with dual-video card:
* 1x Nvidia Quadro 2000M
* 1x Intel HD 1000 <-- Not identified by even lspci
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.6
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=hu_HU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=hu_HU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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On Sat, 15 Oct 2016 12:00:09 +0100 Luca Boccassi
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-10-15 at 12:15 +0200, Domonkos Lezsák wrote:
> > Package: nvidia-driver
> > Severity: serious
> > Tags: upstream
> > Justification: Policy 1.1
>
> No, it's not. If this is an issue, it is _very_ specific to one type of
> machine. It is not a general issue with the packages.
>
> > After installing nvidia-driver on a fresh installed debian (or on it's
> > distributions too), the driver could not be loaded causes to boot in
> > low-graphics mode.
>
> Without kernel and xorg logs it's impossible to tell what the problem
> is.
>
> > The main problem is here, that the package overwrites the
> > xserver-xorg-nouveau driver and it's hard to be restored, even purging
> > nvidia-driver and reinstalling/reconfiguring xserver-xorg-nouveau. For me,
> > a complete new Debian installation was the solution.
>
> It does not overwrite nouveau, it blacklists it, and that's working as
> intended as the proprietary modules and the nouveau modules are mutually
> exclusive.
>
> > The package was working earlyer on Linux Mint Sarah, but now breaks both
> > system.
> >
> > # Hardware configuration:
> > Dell Precision M4600
> > with dual-video card:
> > * 1x Nvidia Quadro 2000M
> > * 1x Intel HD 1000 <-- Not identified by even lspci
>
> I can only find conflicting information online, some say that laptop is
> an optimus system, some say it isn't.
> You should check your BIOS, make sure it is up to date, and check if
> there are optimus or switchable graphics options.
>
> If it is an optimus system, you must install bumblebee-nvidia, and then
> the Intel card will be used as the main gpu and you can use the discrete
> one via optirun.
>
> https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee
>
> If it is not an optimus system, then it most likely has a switch in the
> bios to decide which card to use. Or it could be hardcoded to always use
> the nvidia one. In this case it is very much dependent on the specific
> hardware.
Closing due to lack of further information.
Andreas
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