343.36 Nvidia driver install .run
Has anyone mastered the art of keeping Nvidia drivers up to date on Debian? I have a 980 GTX and want to use the latest drivers. As a matter of fact, the drivers in the repo do not even run the thing... I reverted back to my 660...
My issue is I seem to be entirely unable to completely clean my system of the old Nvidia driver. I use Sid. I have plenty backups and other partitions for stability etc. Just am trying to force this to work. One thing I am noticing is that nouveau is still blacklisted even after I did Code:
apt-get purge nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-glx Code:
apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') Uninstalling headers did nothing though, so I put them back. I also tried making .bak files out of all of the nvidia related stuff in /etc/modprobe.d/ Nothing much changed. |
Version 343.36 is in the experimental repo. Why don't you grab it from there?
https://packages.debian.org/experimental/nvidia-driver |
I just can NOT Google apparently. I used various permutations of Debian and nvidia and that driver number and all I got was something about how they were not moving it to Sid. I am not terribly familiar with experimental, so thanks.
Install seemed to go well, but I have perhaps buggered up something else in my futile efforts to get the .run file working. I got these at the end of the install. Failed to enable subscription: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1. Failed to fully start up daemon: Input/output error. And I get some sort of start job running when I try to boot up to the full Gnome debi. Eventually just sticks with a flashing cursor. I dunno, may be time to do a fresh install, but I sure would like to know how to fix this if you have any clues. Thanks a ton for what you already told me. |
This is bound to be it...?
Feb 13 01:20:23 debiansid systemd[1]: Job dev-disk-by\x2duuid-4db07c5a\x2d1d21\x2d4494\x2d8453\x2ddb732b3a2daf.device/start timed out. Feb 13 01:20:23 debiansid systemd[1]: Timed out waiting for device dev-disk-by\x2duuid-4db07c5a\x2d1d21\x2d4494\x2d8453\x2ddb732b3a2daf.device. Feb 13 01:20:23 debiansid systemd[1]: Dependency failed for /dev/disk/by-uuid/4db07c5a-1d21-4494-8453-db732b3a2daf. I'm wiped for tonight! =) Any help appreciated. Apparently I have a bad uuid for something |
Well, you said you are on sid, so I thought that you do have some experience on how to install from experimental. Anywa, that new problem may be a sign of your hdd about to break down :(
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I would check with with hdsentinel or with the manifacturer's app , e.g. wd tools for wd drives, just to be sure.
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Just sort of an update... |
Further update: nvidia-xconfig got me back in Sid. It is still showing the old nVidia driver. I guess I just THOUGHT that install went well. Have you, Jim, or anyone else that happens along gotten the 343.36 Nvidia driver installed yourselves? I have to imagine like most of this stuff it is something simply I am missing.
From https://wiki.debian.org/DebianExperimental I am running, Code:
apt-get -t experimental install nvidia-drivers Code:
deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free Code:
aptitude search ~S~i~Aexperimental Code:
/etc/apt# apt-get -t experimental install nvidia-driver Sad me. UPDATE! Forgot to add non-free.... Well, didn't think of it since the examples on the page I went to did not suggest... Same diff. Driver shows in nvidia xserver settings. Going to install the 980 again and cross my fingers. Will mark as solved if it works... |
Up and running. Thanks Jim. I was off in the weeds for quite a while thinking I had a video problem when what it was was a file system issue. Plus I just had no clue the driver was already available in experimental.
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