On 15/9/22 21:01, Thomas Anderson wrote:
First off, I am running Debian 9, Stretch. I know it is old and I should
upgrade and that is something I want to do.
The primary problem is that I have a lot of important systems (email,
cloud), and other less important (web host). Simple dist-upgrades have
always broken my mail server, that I was not immediately able to recover
(fortunately, I had made a backup before). I have tried a couple of
times to upgrade, but all attempts have failed. Thus, why I am still
stick on 9. I don't like it, and still want to upgrade.
All that said, also I have been stuck on installing a simple nvidia
driver, also for months. I can install both the backports version and
the downloaded from nvidia version, but a driver can never be loaded
because of some linux headers error. I know nvidia and linux have never
been nice to each other.
I think these problems are related.
I currently have 4.19.0-0.bpo.amd64 headers. I try rebuilding them, also
tried going back to 4.9.0-13--but the former still stays. the nvidia
installer always says it can't find the kernel to build the driver. If
my system keeps saying it's 4.19.0-0.bpo, why isn't it in the standard
location? I have tried to locate it, but I cannot find it?
How can i find the linux header, to point my driver to?
thanks in advance, sorry for the long sob story.
Hello.
Have you tried Ubuntu, with your nvidia stuff?
I note that you do not specify the nvidia hardware that you have.
I have two Acer laptops, unfortunately, one of which; my most powerful
computer that I have, I can no longer boot, after an electricity grid
supply failure here, in the last few days - the electricity grid supply
here, is erratic, unstable, unsafe, and, harmful.
The two Acer laptops both have nvidia graphics, and, nvidia Optimus.
When I got the more powerful one, in about 2013, I could not find a
non-MS operating system to run the hardware, at first, and, the MS
Windows version was too difficult to use. After about 18 months (it took
me 18 months, to get the computer operating, so that I could start using
it), I had found that only two non-MS operating systems had drivers for
the CPU; an i7 of the Haskell (?) architecture - dragonflyBSD and Ubuntu
Linux, and, of those, only Ubuntu Linux had drivers for the nvidia
graphics, that ran with Optimus.
So, as it happened, the only way that I could get the i7 laptop (an Acer
Aspire V3-772G) to run an external monitor, was to run Ubuntu Linux; at
that time, v12.04. Prior to getting that computer operational, I had
been running Debian, on most of my computers.
My understanding is that, to run Linux, or, any non-MS operating system,
with nvidia graphics, especially, if you have nvidia Optimus, you need
to run Ubuntu Linux.
I do not know whether Debian, as yet, has the drivers to run the nvidia
graphics, and, in the absence of your nvidia hardware details, I think
you might need to try running Ubuntu with your hardware.
I am no expert, and, after about 20-25 years of using Linux, I still
regard myself as a learner - this opinion is based solely on my personal
experience.
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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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