Having troubles installing nvidia driver - debian jessie

enorbet · 02-24-2016, 02:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wh33t

Unfortunately I don't understand what half of that means. But here is the output of sudo lsmod http://paste.debian.net/402861

sudo modprobe nvidia caused an error but for some reason typing sudo modprobe nvidia > modprobe.out wouldn't write the error message to the file.

Maybe I'll just give up and use Ubuntu. Seems like that might be more realistically where I'm at with Linux.

While that might be a solution for this problem I doubt it because although you don't have a problem with nouveau you DO have the classic problem of 2 sets of video chips according to your "lsmod". This is the classic HDMI issue that pops up on laptops needing Bumblebee or PCs needing HDMI blacklisted. This, being commonplace, is easy and of no consequence unless you sometimes use the HDMI from your stand-alone video card for audio as in some HTPC setups.

Go to your distro forum and use Search for "how to disable HDMI Hda_Intel and discover the best way of blacklisting HDA Intel and then verify none exist in output from "lsmod".

Quote:

Originally Posted by Highlander

There can be ONLY ONE!

wh33t · 02-26-2016, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enorbet

While that might be a solution for this problem I doubt it because although you don't have a problem with nouveau you DO have the classic problem of 2 sets of video chips according to your "lsmod". This is the classic HDMI issue that pops up on laptops needing Bumblebee or PCs needing HDMI blacklisted. This, being commonplace, is easy and of no consequence unless you sometimes use the HDMI from your stand-alone video card for audio as in some HTPC setups.

Go to your distro forum and use Search for "how to disable HDMI Hda_Intel and discover the best way of blacklisting HDA Intel and then verify none exist in output from "lsmod".

Oh, very interesting. Thank you. I'll give that a go.

wh33t · 02-26-2016, 05:45 PM

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Originally Posted by el barto

First thing I do when installing Debian, is using kwrite / gedit or mousepad as su

Code:

mousepad /etc/apt/sources.list

delete everything and replace it with

Code:

# Debian MAIN
deb http://http.debian.net/debian stable main
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian stable main

deb http://http.debian.net/debian stable-updates main
deb-src http://http.debian.net/debian stable-updates main

deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main

# Debian MAIN CONTRIB NON-FREE
deb http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free

# Debian BACKPORTS
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports main
deb http://http.debian.net/debian jessie-backports contrib

# Debian MULTIMEDIA
deb http://www.deb-multimedia.org stable main non-free

# Pipelight (silverlight)
deb http://repos.fds-team.de/stable/debian/ jessie main

Save it and close it.

run the following

Code:

wget http://repos.fds-team.de/Release.key

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apt-key add Release.key

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apt-get update

you will get an error message, do the following

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apt-get install deb-multimedia-keyring

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apt-key add Release.key

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apt-get update && apt-get upgrade

Installing Nvidia drivers is explained here.

For installing nvidia drivers I do the following for current GPU:

Code:

aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') nvidia-kernel-dkms

Code:

apt-get install nvidia-xconfig nvidia-settings

Code:

nvidia-xconfig

For legacy GPU I check which version is right for my GPU. f.ex. 304:

Code:

aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') nvidia-legacy-304xx-kernel-dkms

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apt-get install nvidia-xconfig

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nvidia-xconfig

Depending your card you can install vdpau

Code:

apt-get install vdpauinfo

Think this is it. Never had any problems following this except the one time after an upgrade a new version of Nvidia driver was installed on my legacy GPU and ended up with a black screen.

Very thorough! Thank you. I'll consider that after I try some of these other solutions. It looks like it might be an issue with the multi-monitor outs on the video card.

ondoho · 02-27-2016, 01:27 AM

enorbet, where do you see 2 sets of video chips on the output op provided so far?
i don't.

wheet, i don't know how you got on with el barto's suggestions; anyhow, now that your pci-ids are fixed, we need that output again:

Code:

lspci -k | grep -iEA5 'vga|3d'

to assess your situation.

but i already have a fairly strong suspicion that you just need to install the proper proprietary (sic) driver for this GeForce GTX 960. and make sure X sees it, and nouveau is blacklisted and such. but all that should be explained on the debian wiki.

enorbet · 02-27-2016, 10:56 AM

@ondoho - I my have jumped to a conclusion but AFAIK extremely few mobos come with onboard HDMI and many if not most come with onboard sound (and quite a few w/ at least rudimentary onboard or onchip graphics) so as soon as I saw "snd-hdmi" I did jump to the conclusion that OP's box has duplicate sound chips if not duplicate graphics. If I was wrong I suspect OP can clear that by postingdata on exactly what his rig consists of.