The current Debian ("Jessie") text install appears to work properly with Nvidia
cards using the Nouveau driver. After that the procedure for installing the
nvidia driver is fairly straightforward. Now that I've got it done, I'll
probably abandon Ubuntu. I can copy over the files in the home directory using
Lucky Backup, or a similar utility.
On Monday, April 17, 2017 2:22 PM, Matt McKenzie <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 12:50 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2017 10:08:10 -0700
> Thomas Groman <[email protected]> dijo:
>
> >I would recommend going on the AMD side of things for graphics cards at
> >least until Nvidia stops making their cards only run with signed blobs.
>
>
For one, the OP already bought the NVidia card.
For another, "signed blobs" is the only way several things will get any
full capability use, including some video cards, cellular modems, etc.
It's sad but there it is.
> That is an interesting comment.
>
> For several years now I have been using a System76 laptop with an
> Nvidia GeForce GTX 765M, currently with Xubuntu 14.04, up to date. I
> don't need anything special for a video driver, and I prefer open
> source, so right from the beginning I set it up with the nouveau
> driver. But for the past year I have been having issues with it booting
> to a default resolution (640 x 480, I think). I would have to reboot
> until eventually it would come up correctly. That is, until I applied
> some updates before going to the Clinic yesterday. At the Clinic it
> would not let me log in - I'd enter my password and it would just cycle
> back to the login screen.
>
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 got me to a command line, and there I was able to log in.
> Wes helped me with a lot of suggestions and we worked on it for a
> couple hours, without much luck. (A long saga not worth the telling.)
> In the end I installed the Nvidia proprietary driver from the Ubuntu
> repos, and all my video issues went away.
>
> I'm curious what signed blobs are, and if that might have been what
> caused the nouveau driver to misbehave.
> ________________
>
In this case, "signed blob" = the proprietary bits in the NVidia official
drivers that they can't release as open source.
The nouveau driver is basically a completely open source, reverse
engineered driver. It will work fine for 2D, and a little for 3D,
but if you want full acceleration 3D graphics you pretty much need to use
the proprietary driver aka the signed blob.
So the signed blob essentially has nothing to do with the nouveau driver
because it is the OSS dev's way to work around it.
I have used NVidia cards on Linux for many years, though in my case on that
system it was RedHat and Fedora.
At first it was download the driver tarball, but later they put it in the
RPM repos and it was much easier. I believe the proprietary drivers are in
the Debian/Ubuntu repos as well.
You just had to be sure to update the driver if you ever update the kernel,
or a distro upgrade.
So in the OP's case, going from AMD to NVidia, you have to install the
NVidia driver module, or use the nouveau open source driver,
and in either case it most likely means dropping to a virtual terminal
(Ctrl-Alt-F1 as mentioned).
Good luck OP.
If you do decide to jump back to AMD (the RX 4[x]0 series is quite good
from what I hear), I may be interested in buying that GTX 970 from you ;)
Matt M.
LinuxKnight
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