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

2018-11-19 Thread Ric Moore
On 11/15/18 10:24 PM, Tom D. wrote: Thank you, Sir. I understand now. Not quite, you're still top posting. It is frowned upon greatly in these parts. -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.

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

2018-11-16 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 16.11.2018 10:48, Greg Marks wrote: > As of October 2017, I found that running the command "nvidia-detect" > followed by "install nvidia-driver" (as recommended by the first > command) conflicted with the lightdm display manager and prevented > graphical login. Does that problem remain?

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

2018-11-15 Thread Greg Marks
te: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 21:41:58 -0500 > From: Carl Fink > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed? > > Note: top-posting fixed, some quotes trimmed. > > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 2:54 PM Alexander V. Makartsev >

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

2018-11-15 Thread Tom D.
Thank you, Sir. I understand now. I am Adrian. So please feel free to call me by that name. Again thank you for clarification. Sincerely Adrian D'Costa On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 9:42 PM Carl Fink wrote: > Note: top-posting fixed, some quotes trimmed. > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 2:54 PM

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

2018-11-15 Thread Carl Fink
Note: top-posting fixed, some quotes trimmed. On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 2:54 PM Alexander V. Makartsev mailto:avbe...@gmail.com>> wrote: I don't understand what are you talking about. There is no need to do things you describe on Debian manually. Installation of "nvidia-driver"

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

2018-11-15 Thread Tom D.
Thank you for your kind reply. I downloaded the driver from www.nvidia.com for NVIDIA geforce GTX 678 video card driver. It was a shell script with sh extension. So until I blacklist nouveau completely from the Debian OS, Nvidia driver won't install. As a result, I had to blacklist nouveau

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

2018-11-15 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 15.11.2018 23:50, Adrian D'Costa wrote: > 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

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

2018-11-15 Thread Samuel Henrique
That's something that I always wondered about but never got the time to debug,but: If you have Nvidia and wants to use their driver on Ubuntu, it's pretty straightforward and a no-brainer using their (Ubuntu's) driver installation tool. If you're using Debian, you very very likely will end up

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

2018-11-15 Thread Adrian D'Costa
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

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

2018-11-15 Thread Dan Ritter
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

Why has nouveau vs. NVIDIA problem not been addressed?

2018-11-15 Thread Adrian D'Costa
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