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Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
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Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
They're just gone. Did anybody else notice this? I can't use my laptop unless I upgrade to sid. This is really bizarre! I hope somebody fixes this with the morning build, this is a crazy problem to have (But I guess it is testing after all
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Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
Yes, it is Testing afterall.
I read quite a few reports elsewhere on the same issue.
Many people who reported the issue also reported when they use smxi/sgfxi they can get the driver installed and run well.
and by the way, running testing or sid, there is a need to pay attention to what it wants to remove before proceeding to dist-upgrade.
I read quite a few reports elsewhere on the same issue.
Many people who reported the issue also reported when they use smxi/sgfxi they can get the driver installed and run well.
and by the way, running testing or sid, there is a need to pay attention to what it wants to remove before proceeding to dist-upgrade.
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Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie)))
Yeah, you're right. I mustn't have been paying attention, because I saw it was removing it but I thought it was doing a replace, but I wasn't feeling well and was in a hurry so I wasn't about to question BTW was not fixed in the morning update so heads up to nvidia users on Jessie.
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Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
I have seen this when I tried to dist-upgrade yesterday. Normally after reading the packages and I see anything worrying/ suspicious I find that the switch -s helps a lot! Testing by name, testing by nature.
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Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
Indeed it does, regardless of release.Ardouos wrote:... I find that the switch -s helps a lot!
My personal opinion: anyone who blindly applies updates without pausing to consider the consequences has no business running either Testing or Sid.
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Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
It was a mistake, I thought it was replacing and not removing.
I upgraded to sid, and saw that the driver is not really available, but what I also saw is that we dropped sys-v compatibility, and I think that's probably shaken everything up, and my conclusion is that's why we're not seeing these drivers in there.
We all make mistakes, but I think anybody who doesn't want to be stuck on 3 year old software has business running jessie or sid, and that's me because some of the features in the libraries I use aren't there in stable.
I upgraded to sid, and saw that the driver is not really available, but what I also saw is that we dropped sys-v compatibility, and I think that's probably shaken everything up, and my conclusion is that's why we're not seeing these drivers in there.
We all make mistakes, but I think anybody who doesn't want to be stuck on 3 year old software has business running jessie or sid, and that's me because some of the features in the libraries I use aren't there in stable.
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Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
You have to remember that testing/ sid are development branches and are not the full release of Debian. Infact how the system is treated and run is different too!runfrodorun wrote:But I think anybody who doesn't want to be stuck on 3 year old software has business running jessie or sid, and that's me because some of the features in the libraries I use aren't there in stable.
It is up to you what system you want to use... But also bear in mint that there are other projects that people released to try and help release a more stable testing system: LMDE and Solydxk.
There is also Arch and Fedora which are bleeding edge systems if you want to keep really up to date.
But I stand by what I say. Testing by name, testing by nature. It will probably be awhile before the problem is resolved, next time just be careful before blindly upgrading .
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Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
The problem should be fixed (in unstable);
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=755467
but it hasn't migrated to testing yet.
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=755467
but it hasn't migrated to testing yet.
Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
this is what is in sid
what i have generally found for instance when i am pulling from experimental, that the only files pulled are nvidia related packages. but i always check with a fine toothcomb to ensure no other system files are being updated. or if they are, i am happy with what is happening.
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# dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii glx-alternative-nvidia 0.4.1 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:amd64 340.24-2 amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx:i386 340.24-2 i386 NVIDIA binary OpenGL libraries
ii libgl1-nvidia-glx-i386 340.24-2 i386 NVIDIA binary OpenGL 32-bit libraries
ii libnvidia-ml1:amd64 340.24-2 amd64 NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library
ii nvidia-alternative 340.24-2 amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii nvidia-driver 340.24-2 amd64 NVIDIA metapackage
ii nvidia-glx 340.24-2 amd64 transition to nvidia-driver
ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20131102+1 amd64 cleanup after driver installation with the nvidia-installer
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20131102+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 340.24-2 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
ii nvidia-kernel-source 340.24-2 amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module source
ii nvidia-modprobe 340.24-1 amd64 utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and create device nodes
ii nvidia-support 20131102+1 amd64 NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
ii nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 340.24-2 amd64 NVIDIA vdpau driver
ii nvidia-xconfig 340.24-1 amd64 X configuration tool for non-free NVIDIA drivers
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 340.24-2 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
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Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
The changelog mentions Nvidia being broken due to the xorg 1.16 transition. Experts can selectively migrate packages from sid to testing. Beginners can try to uninstall nvidia packages and use the installer from nvidia, or just not upgrade until the transition is complete.
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/c ... _changelog
http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/c ... _changelog
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Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
... or you can do what I decided to do, and revert to the nouveau driver. This works so well on my system that I won't be bothering to reinstall nVidia when the transition is complete.
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Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
Yes, I updated about a week ago, and got the good drivers back, and then I set my apt to testing again, and waited for it to catch upPeterB wrote:The problem should be fixed (in unstable);
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo ... bug=755467
but it hasn't migrated to testing yet.
Noveau is borderline non-functional on every single system of mine. On my powermac it panics the kernel after about 2 minutes of use (which is really bad because I can't run proprietary drivers on ppc, had to buy a radeon card), and I get DOUBLE the battery life with the proprietary nvidia drivers. Maybe there's power options for nouveau? I don't know, but that doesn't seem to me like something I should have to **** around for a week setting up, and the performance of nouveau is absolutely horrendous, I'm beginning to wonder if it really supports some of the cards that their website says they support. It really sucks that nvidia does not release any specs at all for the nouveau team, because the driver has been unusuable for me.roseway wrote:... or you can do what I decided to do, and revert to the nouveau driver. This works so well on my system that I won't be bothering to reinstall nVidia when the transition is complete.
I used RedHat linux about 12 years ago, and it wasn't my thing... Fedora is great and all but debian is where it's at for me
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Re: Proprietary nvidia drivers in Jessie
A quick workaround is to manually start up the driver using:
Bumblebee removes the module once optirun exits though, so you'll have to run that before every optirun.
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sudo modprobe nvidia-current