On יום שלישי, 4 ביולי 2017 16:27:21 IDT Mark Fletcher wrote: > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0700, tony mollica wrote: > > On another note, > > > > just checking to see if anyone has used the nvidia driver (304 series) > > install and if there were any problems that arose or needed to be resolved > > either before or after the installation? > > I had to do this for the first time with the upgrade to stretch, > apparently my circa-2009 nvidia geforce card is now "legacy". > > I did think the upgrade process was compromised a bit by this, but I > got it working in the end. > > The upgrade news said "Don't install the new driver if you have an old > card." Well thanks, but what am I supposed to do instead??? > > During the upgrade, it pointed out that my card was not supported by the > new driver, and that I needed the legacy driver (previous question > answered). .... Always, loads of run.
I actually do like Nouveau but it does not play well with Firefox, et. al, and KDE. If this has been fixed, someone please inform me. Failing that, I use the 304xx legacy driver. Installs without a hitch. xorg.conf is deprecated. Live without it. I need to blacklist Nouveau in /etc/modprobe.d -- installation provides an nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf to put there. Voile!