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rations

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Registered: 2025-11-06

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Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

Does your nvidia card support driver versions above 570.xxx.xxx? If so this is what I do.

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/c … -1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install cuda-drivers

sudo reboot

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djinnhammer

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Registered: 2026-05-01

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Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

I've just followed this on my fresh Excalibur install, and fastfetch doesn't seem to be showing anything different to "X11" despite etrminal during installation confirming X11 getting uninstalled and replaced by Xlibre.
I used : ~$ env | grep -E -i 'x11|xorg|wayland'
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
And that is what it shows me, am I missing something?

rolfie

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Registered: 2017-11-25

Posts: 1,433  

Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

What do you expect from a X11 replacement?

From my Excalibur on XLibre VM:

~$ env | grep -E -i 'x11|xorg|wayland'
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11

Last edited by rolfie (Yesterday 19:22:12)

MageSlayer

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Registered: 2024-03-03

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Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

@rations

Does your nvidia card support driver versions above 570.xxx.xxx? If so this is what I do.

sudo apt install linux-headers-amd64

wget https://developer.download.nvidia.com/c … -1_all.deb

sudo dpkg -i cuda-keyring_1.1-1_all.deb

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install cuda-drivers

sudo reboot

Sorry. But are you replying to my question in
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=63534#p63534 or you commenting something else?

I am a bit confused about relationship between cuda drivers and my issues with empty/black windows under XLibre.

rations

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Registered: 2025-11-06

Posts: 70  

Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

You asked for recommendations. I'm just sharing what I use with xlibre on excalibur and have not had any issues.

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kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

Posts: 654  

Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

"mage slayer"
i have used this wiki to install nvidia driver for gt 710 on a devuan 5 daedalus OS, it could function also for devuan 6?

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

0   apt install linux-headers-generic

1, using nvidia-detect

(it would say in my case "nvidia-tesla-470-something")

then i went to

11. debian bullseye (470.xx)

instead of

# apt install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree

adapted to

# apt install nvidia-tesla-470-driver firmware-misc-nonfree --no-install-recommends

after reboot, there is some error message during booting process related to nvidia, however it seems the graphics driver is active and somewhwat functioning; (tested with geekbench --compute) there is no opencl, installed, however.

the "--no-install-recommends" portion was needed, since otherwise there would be error with devuan package "nvidia-persistenced" that has been discussed on the forum.

hopefully on devuan 6 this can all be easier, and no-install-recommends is no longer needed.

MageSlayer

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Registered: 2024-03-03

Posts: 10  

Re: HOW TO: Install XLibre on Devuan

Ok. Thanks for details! I'll make my tests.