<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 12:15 PM Stephen Worthington <<a href="mailto:stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz">stephen_agent@jsw.gen.nz</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">On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 12:12:06 -0500, you wrote:<br>
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>On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 11:58 AM Allen Edwards <<a href="mailto:allen.p.edwards@gmail.com" target="_blank">allen.p.edwards@gmail.com</a>><br>
>wrote:<br>
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>> I executed my "plan"<br>
>><br>
>> sudo add-apt-repository ppa:graphics-drivers<br>
>> sudo apt-get update<br>
>> sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall<br>
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>> And autoinstall picked the 304 driver but I still see<br>
>> sudo apt-get purge nvidia*configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0<br>
>><br>
>> Still no nevidia-settings that works so tonight I will go with part 2 of<br>
>> the plan and start over with 16.04<br>
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>> Allen<br>
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>If you do not successfully blacklist nouveau from the initramfs and<br>
>post-boot running kernel, then no matter what you do, nvidia.ko will never<br>
>work. I am unsure of how to do that in a debian derivitive, but it must be<br>
>done.<br>
><br>
>-Greg<br>
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In Ubuntu, the blacklisting is done automatically when the Nvidia<br>
package is installed - the package installs a /etc/modprobe.d file.<br><br></blockquote><div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline" class="gmail_default">That is clearly not working if the nouveau module is running. A blacklist is a blacklist</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace;display:inline" class="gmail_default"> - as long as nouveau is loaded, nvivdia will *never* work.</div> </div><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">I disable kms and nouvea when I install nvidia, but I do not use packages - I run their installer. I also do not use a GUI for anything but mythtv, so I do not need KMS - Allen might.</div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:monospace,monospace" class="gmail_default">Does Ubuntu rebuild it's initramfs after modeproba -a is run. I put the blaccklist on the kernel cmdline as well so it is not run from initramfs (even though I rebuild it). In Redhat speak, it is rd.driver.blacklist=nouveau - not sure about debian.<br></div><br></div></div></div>