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wingcommander1999

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Registered: 2020-04-14

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[HowTo]Install latests community NvidiaGraphicsDrivers on Daedalus

Disclaimer: "This tutorial only focuses on the second way to install Nvidia's proprietary drivers, if the "apt install nvidia-driver" way does not work on your installation, you can rely on this tutorial.To all those who use Plymouth with various scripts, there is a high risk of startup problems because Plymouth behaves badly with nvidia's proprietary drivers, so please do not follow this How-to. You can, however, find out more on the Plymouth Debian Wiki."

Prerequisites:

- make a backup with Timeshift (safety first)

- check graphics card compatibility
  (if your graphics card does not appear in the list, it is not necessary to install the latest driver, the one installed by default will suffice)

- command line as root to check which GPU is installed:
 

lshw -numeric -C display

Output

If the prerequisites are satisfied, you can continue with the tutorial below.

First step add non-free-firmware sources befor install Linux Headers and compilation dependencies:

nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Add the lines below behind each debian source and enabling the backports:

non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-backports main non-free-firmware

Then update and install Linux Headers and compilation dependencies:

apt update && apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential libglvnd-dev pkg-config dkms -y

Second step blacklist the nouveau driver, create a blacklist file:

nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

In the file add the following lines and save the file:

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

Then regenerate the kernel initramfs:

update-initramfs -u

Third step install the latests NvidiaGraphicsDrivers:

apt install -t daedalus-backports firmware-misc-nonfree nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-driver nvidia-cuda-toolkit nvidia-cuda-dev nvidia-settings nvidia-smi nvidia-xconfig nvidia-opencl-icd nvidia-opencl-common nvidia-detect -y

Reboot.

To view how version you have installed, just open an terminal and enter follow:

nvidia-smi

Enjoy!

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Last edited by wingcommander1999 (2025-01-12 19:11:54)

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Re: [HowTo]Install latests community NvidiaGraphicsDrivers on Daedalus

Nice! But don't you need to make a xorg.conf if you install the Nvidia drivers? Been years since I ran an Nvidia machine.

Another easy way to identify your chip is to install nvidia-detect then run that in terminal, it will also attempt to suggest what packages you might need to install for your chip.

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Re: [HowTo]Install latests community NvidiaGraphicsDrivers on Daedalus

mostly for future thread visitors, since nvidia-detect was mentioned:

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

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Re: [HowTo]Install latests community NvidiaGraphicsDrivers on Daedalus

I've never got nvidia to install even by following the instructions above. The msg I get is:

ERRORS were encountered while processing:
nvidia-persistenced
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1).

If I reboot I will get a login screen but when I enter my password it just blinks and comes right back to the login screen.

I'm not sure what to do. I would love to run Devuan but without the nvidia-driver I get way too much screen tearing in my browsers.

stultumanto

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Registered: 2023-12-12

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Re: [HowTo]Install latests community NvidiaGraphicsDrivers on Daedalus

From what you describe, it sounds as if you may be trying to log in via a display manager, but the full X server is failing to start. You could try logging into a text console instead. (Press Ctrl+Alt+F1 to bring up a console.) From there, you may be able to troubleshoot the issue.

I'm not sure if persistenced can cause the kind of problem you're having, but removing it definitely won't prevent you from using the graphics driver. Other users (including myself) have experienced the same error. It was discussed here in the Beowulf beta thread. It seems the init script may try to start the persistenced service without checking first to see if it's already running. One user in the above thread modified the script to address this issue, while another fixed it by removing and reinstalling the service. I chose to simply purge it from my system.

stopAI

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Registered: 2023-04-04

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Re: [HowTo]Install latests community NvidiaGraphicsDrivers on Daedalus

I've never got nvidia to install even by following the instructions above. The msg I get is:

Install linux headers:

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64

Then install nvidia driver (for newer video cards) with command:

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends nvidia-driver

Or if you using older video card:

sudo apt install --no-install-recommends nvidia-tesla-470-driver

then, if needed, install nvidia-settings

sudo apt install nvidia-settings-tesla-470

Last edited by stopAI (2025-04-01 11:50:11)