Nvidia and other problems in HP laptop and Debian 10

[stevepusser]

The quick and easy way to install kernel headers for the running kernel and the build toolchain is, as sysadmin:

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apt-get install module-assistant
m-a prepare

MX Linux has an Nvidia driver installer which detects Optimus laptops and sets up Bumblebee for them automatically, and it seems to work more often than not. One secret ingredient may be because we also install virtualgl, which isn't in Debian, and acts as a bridge, though I originally ported it over for MX for its glxspheres(64) benchmark. Serendipity, I guess.

[Scorpion]

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m-a prepare
Getting source for kernel version: 4.19.0-10-amd64
Kernel headers available in /lib/modules/4.19.0-10-amd64/build
Creating symlink...
apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version (12.6).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Done!

Nice package module-assistant, so you need build-essential.

[stevepusser]

Not really sure if you or module-assistant were installing build-essential, but "m-a prepare" makes sure it and the headers are installed.

[Scorpion]

I installed it before with:

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apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential

As I saw in that link, it states though that you do not need it if you install the debian package but that is not true.

MA was checking.

Why can' t apt install it by default with the headers? Maybe with MA.

[macky]

I give up on this lol, tried different approach but can't make it work, anyway it's not really a problem for me.