LOL

https://sysdfree.wordpress.com/2018/02/15/165/

I wouldn't apt install any of your shit.

Nothing is ever deleted from the net, no matter if you edit it now or 1 year from now, unless you are a 1%er. There are probably crawlers creating snapshots here daily.

you can also add the user to sudo like so as root.

# gpasswd -a omar sudo

Violent Femmes

Got really stoned on some naturally grown weed back in the early 90's listening to this. All the weed these days is worth shit, hydro is crap and full of chemicals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeJODSjIbT8

It does say in the debian wiki guide that this needs to be done as a separate set of commands/instruction, so it might be a case of some incompatibilities having dependencies run for such an operation.  It also non-free so it has to be done via the user at run time i guess.

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsD … stallation

Might be because you didnt install the linux-headers first, i dont know but there is definetly something buggy going on due to that nvidia-persistenced i believe.

A few of the steps i did were probably not needed like sudo depmod, update-initramfs and update-grub as i think they get automatically done after module building, must be the irish in me, to be sure to be sure!

Ok i managed to get it working.

This is what i did.

first blacklist nouveau driver.

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-blacklists-nouveau.conf

# You need to run "update-initramfs -u" after editing this file.

# see #580894
blacklist nouveau

then

sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential

sudo apt install nvidia-legacy-340xx-kernel-dkms --no-install-recommends

sudo apt install nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver --no-install-recommends

sudo depmod

sudo update-initramfs -u

sudo update-grub

my xorg.conf

# nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig
# nvidia-xconfig:  version 450.57

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "Unknown"
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Now reboot !

This may work for you it may not.

lspci -knn | grep -iA3 nvidia
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT216M [GeForce GT 330M] [10de:0a29] (rev a2)
	Subsystem: Toshiba Corporation GT216M [GeForce GT 330M] [1179:fd30]
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia
	Kernel modules: nvidia

What kernel are you using Altoid ?

Will try to install nvidia again on the machine i have that uses 340xx again with beowulf and see if i run into same issues.

Edit: Just doing a little researching, can you confirm where the nvidia-persistenced binary is located Altoid ?

is it in /usr/bin or /usr/lib/ ?

what does your ascii installation have to with your issue, are you using beowulf or ascii ?

Also, why not follow this guide ?

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

Maybe need to modprobe /dev/nvidia* ?

Have you tried nvidia-xconfig, or is that not a good idea ? I remember using it when i had nvidia setup that used the 340xx to get it working.

zapper, yeah good point in regards to mozilla, i suppose if the goog keeps the paychecks coming they might be in a position where they are obliged to do their bidding.