I tried the suggestions mentioned in this thread. I forgot to mention
the hardware in question. It is a rather modern GTX 1030 low profile
Nvidia card. it is nothing fancy at all, and would not expect to game
from it, but that is not what I bought it for. Just wanted more than
null graphics. Over the past half dozen years, have mostly done things
over ssh anyway, just wanted something nicer to work on. Admittedly,
it's not even that important, I have had this issue for maybe a year,
but when I fired up a new installation this past weekend, in my bid to
set everything up again, and saw that the card actually works (on a
clean install), I thought I would give it another go.
I tried: sudo apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
says there is some c compiler requirement that is not fulfilled. And,
there are broken packages that are being held back. I have gone deep
into this rabbit hole, and still can't seem to find a solution to
whatever shows up.
Where is the kernel located anyway? The nvidia software, to it's credit,
has an option flag that will allow me to show the software where the
kernel is located. I looked where nvidia suggests it should be, don't
remember off the top of my head, and found an older kernel there, like
4.9.xxxx.whatever. But, not the 4.19...version.
I have been using Linux for 20 years, and usually can find a solution,
but in this particular case, it's possible that my box is just beyond
repair--at least by me =)
On 15/09/2022 18:37, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022, 09:46 Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> wrote:
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.
Have you looked at the Debian wiki? Because the Nvidia pages do
correctly show how to set up optimus five different ways.
https://wiki.debian.org/NVIDIA%20Optimus
The default render offload option works perfectly and I wished I
bothered to try that first instead of fighting constantly with
Bumblebee, which is both slow and brittle by comparison.
