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 When I installed nvidia drivers, I also had to install headers That came from https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphi...7_.22Wheezy.22

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

Seems doubltful. Boots up fine to Windows and Mint. The install went fine, as I said above.

I would check with with hdsentinel or with the manifacturer's app , e.g. wd tools for wd drives, just to be sure.

I think I hid the swap partition from Sid while experimenting with the encryption option in Mint. I reformated the swap partition and corrected the uuid in fstab and now am back to not being able to get the Gnome to load.

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,
Here's my sources.list
But when I run -
I get no return information, and in GNOME if I call up the Nvidia xserver settings it still shows the driver as version 340.65.


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.