Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 10:22:09PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On 15/9/22 21:01, Thomas Anderson wrote: > > First off, I am running Debian 9, Stretch. I know it is old and I should > > upgrade and that is something I want to do. > > > > The primary problem is that I have a lot of important systems

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 08:34:05PM +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: > I tried: sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) > > says there is some c compiler requirement that is not fulfilled. And, there > are broken packages that are being held back. You probably need build-essential then. > Where

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Thomas Anderson
I tried the suggestions mentioned in this thread. I forgot to mention the hardware in question. It is a rather modern GTX 1030 low profile Nvidia card. it is nothing fancy at all, and would not expect to game from it, but that is not what I bought it for. Just wanted more than null graphics.

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 09:46 Bret Busby wrote: > My understanding is that, to run Linux, or, any non-MS operating system, > with nvidia graphics, especially, if you have nvidia Optimus, you need > to run Ubuntu Linux. > Have you looked at the Debian wiki? Because the Nvidia pages do correctly

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Anssi Saari
Bret Busby writes: > My understanding is that, to run Linux, or, any non-MS operating > system, with nvidia graphics, especially, if you have nvidia Optimus, > you need to run Ubuntu Linux. Maybe in 2012 that was the case? I have 2016 vintage HP zbook gen3 which worked without issue when I put

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:01:24 +0200 Thomas Anderson wrote: > I have tried a couple of > times to upgrade, but all attempts have failed. Thus, why I am still > stick on 9. I don't like it, and still want to upgrade. The only way to upgrade is one major version at a time. In your case, 9 -> 10,

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 15/9/22 21:01, Thomas Anderson wrote: First off, I am running Debian 9, Stretch. I know it is old and I should upgrade and that is something I want to do. The primary problem is that I have a lot of important systems (email, cloud), and other less important (web host). Simple dist-upgrades

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Dan Ritter
Thomas Anderson wrote: > The primary problem is that I have a lot of important systems (email, > cloud), and other less important (web host). Simple dist-upgrades have > always broken my mail server, that I was not immediately able to recover > (fortunately, I had made a backup before). I have

Re: linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 03:01:24PM +0200, Thomas Anderson wrote: > How can i find the linux header, to point my driver to? apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

linux headers and upgrading nvidia driver

2022-09-15 Thread Thomas Anderson
First off, I am running Debian 9, Stretch. I know it is old and I should upgrade and that is something I want to do. The primary problem is that I have a lot of important systems (email, cloud), and other less important (web host). Simple dist-upgrades have always broken my mail server, that