<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:58 AM Allen Edwards <<a href="mailto:allen.p.edwards@gmail.com">allen.p.edwards@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I executed my "plan" <div><br></div><div><div>sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers<br></div><div>sudo apt-get update</div></div><div>sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall<br></div><div><br></div><div>And autoinstall picked the 304 driver but I still see</div><div>
<span style="font-size:small;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">sudo apt-get purge nvidia*configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0</span>
<br></div><div><br></div><div>Still no nevidia-settings that works so tonight I will go with part 2 of the plan and start over with 16.04</div><div><br></div><div>Allen</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">If you do not successfully blacklist nouveau from the initramfs and post-boot running kernel, then no matter what you do, nvidia.ko will never work. I am unsure of how to do that in a debian derivitive, but it must be done.</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">-Greg</div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 9:47 AM, Stephen Worthington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz" target="_blank">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 09:31:34 -0700, you wrote:<br>
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>I did use the Additional Drivers tab and "installed" 304. That is how I got<br>
>to where I am and it didn't work. The additional drivers tab says that 304<br>
>is installed but it isn't. That is why I was going to use purge and the<br>
>autoinstall thinking that with the 6200 card it would install the 304<br>
>driver as per the documentation. I did autoinstall at first with the 8600<br>
>card and got the 340 driver and that was a disaster with the mis reading of<br>
>the video card capability and the tiny fonts. Then I did the 304 install<br>
>manually but it obviously isn't working.<br>
><br>
>Allen<br>
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</span>There is an even more manual install procedure - use "apt install" to<br>
select the exact packages to install. Or use the Synaptic GUI program<br>
to get a list of all "nvidia" packages and select them from there.<br>
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