I have a 1080ti Kingpin, free drivers do not yet seem to support it but proprietary drivers do.

Every time I boot a debian based OS the display always ends up turning off and it leaves me with nothing I can do and when I run Kali linux it gets stuck on, "Started Update UTMP about System Runlevel Changes."

I tried Manjaro with Calamares and its options, I first tried free drivers and the display turned off on boot sequence yet when I changed the option to nonfree drivers, the Manjaro live system booted up with no issue and ran flawlessly.

How do I change any current debian based OS booting off of GRUB to use proprietary instead of free?

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You have to install them (through non-distro means). For relatively new hardware < 2 years old, you might find debian testing or sid to work better for you. You can work around the blanking screen issue though.

$ xset -dpms s noblank s noexpose

And the screen should no longer blank (after 10 minutes). Sometimes you can recover from a blank screen with the Control+Alt+F# keys. Switches to a console, then switches back to a gui (F1 or F7 most times). Technically it's alt+F# from a console (or was it control+?), but the Control+Alt+F# option works too. Although nVidia drivers have always been the most "quirky" IMO when it comes to unix-isms. Not that I've had much nVidia exposure beyond the ge force 6k-ish days.

The screen doesn’t just blank, it turns off. I tried the console keys and nothing worked. I figured that this new card wouldn’t get too much support for the time being. About Debian testing, it seems kind of risky, is it safe enough to use as a desktop?

you can try ubuntu instead of debian. But if you have no other choices you can try debian testing too.

The last time I had an issue like that it was an nVidia GPU. But shortly there after the monitor went out. Jumping between consoles and X got it to recover at first. Then less and less, then never. The it was a matter of every other or more boot it worked. The xset command keeps it from blanking in the first place. So if it's working, it should (in theory) stay working.

There could be other issues too. Like too many things on a single plug. Slap a modern 1000W computer, a 450W display, and 2x 225W studio monitors (speakers) on a single plug, and it's not long before you're wondering who's smoking when you're the only one home and you don't smoke.

News flash: Debian boots at a lower res than my screen. It boots at 10 something x 500

Ubuntu flat out doesn’t pro, the screen turns off and everything.

Just about any other Debian based distro has the same issue.

How do I enter that no blank command because it doesn’t acknowledge it when I enter the noblank command and it says the command can’t be found.

And it’s not a power issue as I have had this pc hooked up for some time with windows ten. In Manjaro live boots (I used every flavor with an experiment of trying both free and nonfree.) I could select the graphic propriety drivers with no problems whereas with free drivers I had issues every time.

I checked my electrical connections and everything is just fine. I know it’s not electrical because all the errors I get are graphical.

Is there a way I can edit the boot files or use the GRUB command to change the out of the box drivers options?

you need to give us more info, otherwise hard to give usable tips. http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-ques...html#beprecise

What I've done is to set my sources.list to "testing/buster/sid" to find what I need, then when I'm done, I switch it back to stretch.

Honestly, the easiest way to do what you want is to first do a MINIMAL Debian install. At the software selection step uncheck everything.

This will bring up up to a text only console login prompt, with no Xorg video drivers installed at all. This way, you can manually install the nVidia proprietary driver via text commands BEFORE booting up to a graphical X environment. Therefore, my suggested steps are:

1) Do a MINIMAL Debian install. Uncheck all software suites at the software selection step.

2) Log in as root, and do the following command:

Replace "xfce4" with whatever desktop environment you prefer. This is for a basic xfce4 install, assuming you know specifically what other software you want to install later. If you prefer the default Debian Desktop Environment software suite, install task-xfce-desktop instead.

3) With a text editor (either pico or vi), edit /etc/apt/sources.list using the command pico /etc/apt/sources.list

You will want to add " contrib non-free" after "main" to the end of all lines.

4) Run the following commands:

This will install the proprietary nVidia driver from Debian's non-free software repositories. Note that Debian is fundamentally an open source free software project. Software which is not available under an open source license will always be "second class" within Debian.

5) Reboot with:

The nVidia driver in Debian's non-free software repository might not be the very latest. If you want to install nVidia's latest instead, refer to the bottom part of this reference:

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-insta...-stretch-linux

So, what's the fundamental source of your problem? The fundamental problem is the way nVidia does not release their video drivers in a way which many linux distributions can readily integrate. In contrast, the way Intel does it is better for linux distributions.

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Debian tends to default to the lowest common denominator. Multiple screens and the resolution common to all of them (1024x768). Using xrandr after starting X can adjust resolutions to more native ones in a setup more to your liking.

The issue is probably that the Nouveau drivers (open source nvidia driver) do not support your card. Been through this many times - basically, when you boot an installation disk, before you boot you need to edit the grub configuration and add "nomodeset" to the line referencing the kernel you are about to boot. Once you get to a desktop using the terribly slow "vesa" driver, which is what you will be using at that point, is to install the proprietary Nvidia driver, if the distro you are playing with has it in their repos. Manjaro graciously provides the nvidia driver at the time of booting the install image and then installs it automatically if you chose "non-free" at that point.