My first installation seemed to go well but, after GRUB, left me at a blank screen, with just a blinking cursor.
My second installation, when I excluded Gnome, worked and I can log in at the text prompt
I then installed nvidia-driver, seemingly successfully. The installation of nvidia-driver told me it was incompatible with nouveau and this needed a reboot.
I then installed task-gnome-desktop. When I rebooted, I was back at the blank screen and blinking cursor. However, I could ssh into the computer.
I've been searching the web, but none of the suggestions I found seem to work, and I've got to the stage where I really don't know what I'm doing.
Here are some diagnostics. It appears, to me, that gdm crashes and that nouveau is still installed.
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$ nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
65:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation TU104GL [Quadro RTX 4000] [10de:1eb1] (rev a1)
Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation TU104GL [Quadro RTX 4000] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by the default drivers.
It is recommended to install the
nvidia-driver
package.
$ inxi -G
Graphics: Device-1: NVIDIA TU104GL [Quadro RTX 4000] driver: N/A
Display: tty server: X.org 1.20.4 driver: nouveau,vesa unloaded: fbdev,modesetting tty: 238x72
Message: Advanced graphics data unavailable in console for root.
$ systemctl status gdm
● gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; static; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Thu 2020-12-24 15:36:51 AST; 2min 15s ago
Process: 845 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/gdm/generate-config (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 852 (gdm3)
Tasks: 3 (limit: 4915)
Memory: 7.4M
CGroup: /system.slice/gdm.service
└─852 /usr/sbin/gdm3
Dec 24 15:36:51 opsproc3 systemd[1]: Starting GNOME Display Manager...
Dec 24 15:36:51 opsproc3 systemd[1]: Started GNOME Display Manager.
Dec 24 15:36:51 opsproc3 gdm-launch-environment][861]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-environment:session): session opened for user Debian-gdm by (uid=0)
Dec 24 15:36:52 opsproc3 gdm-launch-environment][861]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-environment:session): session closed for user Debian-gdm
Dec 24 15:36:52 opsproc3 gdm3[852]: GdmDisplay: display lasted 0.766969 seconds
Dec 24 15:36:52 opsproc3 gdm3[852]: Child process -884 was already dead.
Dec 24 15:36:52 opsproc3 gdm3[852]: Child process -884 was already dead.
Dec 24 15:36:52 opsproc3 gdm-launch-environment][982]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-environment:session): session opened for user Debian-gdm by (uid=0)
Dec 24 15:36:52 opsproc3 gdm-launch-environment][982]: pam_unix(gdm-launch-environment:session): session closed for user Debian-gdm
Dec 24 15:36:52 opsproc3 gdm3[852]: Child process -985 was already dead.