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Re: Install Nvidia VGA driver.

#16 Post by hack3rcon »

sunrat wrote:
hack3rcon wrote:How you know "Nvidia Geforce GT630" is "nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms" ?
Maybe searched on the internet. Something you should try before asking questions on the forum.
A quick search using the term "debian buster Nvidia Geforce GT630" brought this up as the second result. First was the Debian wiki page about Nvidia.

https://packages.debian.org/buster/nvid ... ernel-dkms
I found that information in Synaptic too. I meant was CLI.

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Re: Install Nvidia VGA driver.

#17 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

hack3rcon wrote:How you know "Nvidia Geforce GT630" is "nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms" ?
https://packages.debian.org/buster/nvidia-detect
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Re: Install Nvidia VGA driver.

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Head_on_a_Stick wrote:
hack3rcon wrote:How you know "Nvidia Geforce GT630" is "nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms" ?
https://packages.debian.org/buster/nvidia-detect
Thank you.
Before install, which config file I need to create backup? If after install system can't boot into GUI then I can restore it to previous state.

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Re: Install Nvidia VGA driver.

#19 Post by stevepusser »

I suggested in my first post that you follow the Debian wiki, which tells you to install and use nvidia-detect. Before we answer any more of your questions that are answered in the wiki, please actually go there and read the entry.
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Re: Install Nvidia VGA driver.

#20 Post by hack3rcon »

stevepusser wrote:I suggested in my first post that you follow the Debian wiki, which tells you to install and use nvidia-detect. Before we answer any more of your questions that are answered in the wiki, please actually go there and read the entry.
I can't see anything about backup!!!

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#21 Post by GarryRicketson »

I can't see anything about backup!!!
https://wiki.debian.org/BackupAndRecovery
Because it is a different topic, so after reading some about it, if you feel you must do so,
start a new topic about making backups, which files to back up , etc.
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If you had looked at and read the link, you would see:

From:https://packages.debian.org/buster/nvidia-detect
The 'nvidia-detect' script in this package checks for an NVIDIA GPU in the system and recommends one of the non-free accelerated driver meta-packages (nvidia-driver, nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver, or nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver) for installation.
All that package is , is a script that checks your system, it then makes a recommendation
about which one of packages should be installed. It does not install anything, and is not at all likely to harm your system.
If you do decide to install one, then yes you should make a good back up of your entire system, especially if it is all ready working OK, In fact it does not make sense to me why you would want to do this, assuming everything is working, but that also is another topic.
My advice is , if you have a working system, learn how to do some more practical things, like making good backups, before trying to experiment with this.

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Re: Install Nvidia VGA driver.

#22 Post by hack3rcon »

GarryRicketson wrote:
I can't see anything about backup!!!
https://wiki.debian.org/BackupAndRecovery
Because it is a different topic, so after reading some about it, if you feel you must do so,
start a new topic about making backups, which files to back up , etc.
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If you had looked at and read the link, you would see:

From:https://packages.debian.org/buster/nvidia-detect
The 'nvidia-detect' script in this package checks for an NVIDIA GPU in the system and recommends one of the non-free accelerated driver meta-packages (nvidia-driver, nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver, or nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver) for installation.
All that package is , is a script that checks your system, it then makes a recommendation
about which one of packages should be installed. It does not install anything, and is not at all likely to harm your system.
If you do decide to install one, then yes you should make a good back up of your entire system, especially if it is all ready working OK, In fact it does not make sense to me why you would want to do this, assuming everything is working, but that also is another topic.
My advice is , if you have a working system, learn how to do some more practical things, like making good backups, before trying to experiment with this.
I mean wasn't the whole system. I guess something like "X.org" or anything that related to start GUI need a backup!!!

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Re: Install Nvidia VGA driver.

#23 Post by hack3rcon »

I tried to install:

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$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gvfs : Depends: gvfs-daemons (>= 1.30.4-1)
        Depends: gvfs-daemons (< 1.30.4-1.1~)
 libgl1 : Depends: libglx0 (= 1.1.0-1~bpo9+1) but it is not going to be installed
 openjdk-8-jre : Depends: libatk-wrapper-java-jni (>= 0.33.3-9~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.

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Re: Install Nvidia VGA driver.

#24 Post by sunrat »

Nvidia drivers don't depend on gvfs or openjdk afaik and nothing should be depending on backports (package with bpo in name) in a default system so you've messed up something else. I think your system is now broken. Good news is you can keep all the pieces and get a full refund.
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#25 Post by hack3rcon »

sunrat wrote:Nvidia drivers don't depend on gvfs or openjdk afaik and nothing should be depending on backports (package with bpo in name) in a default system so you've messed up something else. I think your system is now broken. Good news is you can keep all the pieces and get a full refund.
I guess it is because of my "source.list" problem. Can you look at http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 1&start=15?

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Re: Install Nvidia VGA driver.

#26 Post by GarryRicketson »

I did look at that thread, and responded. Also, please stop the unnecessary full quoting.
Please read this topic:http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=130997

If you do a fresh install, and use one of the Live CD's with non-free :
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unof ... -firmware/
You will not need to do anything with your sources.list file, it will include links to the non-free, etc.
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Re: Install Nvidia VGA driver.

#27 Post by hack3rcon »

I changed my "source.list" as below:

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$ cat /etc/apt/sources.list

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ stretch/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates main contrib non-free

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports main contrib non-free
And:

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$ sudo apt-get update
Ign:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch InRelease
Get:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates InRelease [94.3 kB]
Hit:3 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ InRelease             
Get:5 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-updates InRelease [91.0 kB]
Get:6 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports InRelease [91.8 kB]
Hit:7 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch Release 
Get:9 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Sources.diff/Index [27.8 kB]
Get:10 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages.diff/Index [27.8 kB]
Get:11 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main i386 Packages.diff/Index [27.8 kB]
Get:12 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Translation-en.diff/Index [27.8 kB]
Get:13 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Sources 2019-07-10-1415.27.pdiff [1,798 B]
Get:13 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Sources 2019-07-10-1415.27.pdiff [1,798 B]
Get:14 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages 2019-07-10-1415.27.pdiff [571 B]
Get:15 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages 2019-07-10-2021.14.pdiff [1,266 B]
Get:15 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 Packages 2019-07-10-2021.14.pdiff [1,266 B]
Get:16 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main i386 Packages 2019-07-10-2021.14.pdiff [1,377 B]
Get:16 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main i386 Packages 2019-07-10-2021.14.pdiff [1,377 B]
Get:17 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Translation-en 2019-07-10-1415.27.pdiff [415 B]
Get:17 http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main Translation-en 2019-07-10-1415.27.pdiff [415 B]
Get:18 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main Sources [210 kB]
Get:19 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main amd64 Packages [499 kB]
Get:20 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main i386 Packages [501 kB]
Get:21 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security stretch/updates/main Translation-en [223 kB]
Fetched 1,827 kB in 5s (315 kB/s)        
Reading package lists... Done
$
But:

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$ sudo apt-get install nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 gvfs : Depends: gvfs-daemons (>= 1.30.4-1)
        Depends: gvfs-daemons (< 1.30.4-1.1~)
 libgl1 : Depends: libglx0 (= 1.1.0-1~bpo9+1) but it is not going to be installed
 openjdk-8-jre : Depends: libatk-wrapper-java-jni (>= 0.33.3-9~) but it is not going to be installed
E: Error, pkgProblemResolver::Resolve generated breaks, this may be caused by held packages.
What is my problem?

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#28 Post by GarryRicketson »

Skype is not an open source application and it is not included in the Debian repositories.
And you have these:

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Hit:3 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ InRelease   
Debian Stable is now Debian Buster, your sources.list is for Debian Stretch, you should not be doing that. Read this: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
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You should show us, ALL the sources you are using, that would include what you have in:

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/etc/apt/sources.d

as well as your :

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/etc/apt/sources.list 
The sources.list, you have showed, it looks ok,
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To sum it up, I can not help you any more on this , or the other topic, what you have here is NOT a standard Debian system, but a mixture of things, some of them I would never install on my system. There are a few other threads, other members that insist they have to have Skype, and that is ok, but I can not help any further on this, maybe some one else will. Also this, is not Debian:

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Hit:4 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ 
I don't know what it is, and don't really care.
If you re-install Debian, and use the current stable , Debian Buster, I would be happy to help, but the same not if you mix in all the propriety softawre, and stuff, it needs to be a clean system.
If you must have Skype, and things like that, it might be better for you to just use MS Windows, I don't think Debian is a good choice for you.

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#29 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

Try

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# aptitude install -t stretch-backports nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms libgl1 libglx0
If it still has problems then keeping saying "no" to the suggestions until if finds an acceptable solution.
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Re: Install Nvidia VGA driver.

#30 Post by hack3rcon »

Thus, first of all I must upgrade my Debian 9.9 to Debian 10.

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#31 Post by hack3rcon »

GarryRicketson wrote:Skype is not an open source application and it is not included in the Debian repositories.
And you have these:

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Hit:3 https://repo.skype.com/deb stable InRelease
Hit:4 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ InRelease   
Debian Stable is now Debian Buster, your sources.list is for Debian Stretch, you should not be doing that. Read this: https://wiki.debian.org/DontBreakDebian
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You should show us, ALL the sources you are using, that would include what you have in:

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/etc/apt/sources.d

as well as your :

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/etc/apt/sources.list 
The sources.list, you have showed, it looks ok,
==================
To sum it up, I can not help you any more on this , or the other topic, what you have here is NOT a standard Debian system, but a mixture of things, some of them I would never install on my system. There are a few other threads, other members that insist they have to have Skype, and that is ok, but I can not help any further on this, maybe some one else will. Also this, is not Debian:

Code: Select all

Hit:4 https://download.jitsi.org stable/ 
I don't know what it is, and don't really care.
If you re-install Debian, and use the current stable , Debian Buster, I would be happy to help, but the same not if you mix in all the propriety softawre, and stuff, it needs to be a clean system.
If you must have Skype, and things like that, it might be better for you to just use MS Windows, I don't think Debian is a good choice for you.
My "sources.list.d" directory content:

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$/etc/apt/sources.list.d$ ls
google-chrome.list  jitsi-stable.list  ooniprobe.list  skype-stable.list

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#32 Post by Head_on_a_Stick »

hack3rcon wrote:Thus, first of all I must upgrade my Debian 9.9 to Debian 10.
Why do you think that?

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#33 Post by sickpig »

y OP wants to use gpu driver is not explained.
sickpig wrote:
hack3rcon wrote:I'm using Debian 9.9 x86_64. My PC has a Nvidia Geforce GT630 VGA and I want to install my VGA driver.Thank you.
the right question is y u want to use gpu driver?

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#35 Post by hack3rcon »

I installed "NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS", but when I reboot my system and grub menu showed and Debian want to boot then my system beeped like when it is rebooted and the monitor turned off for 1 minute then logging windows showed. Is it normal?

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