On Wed, 2024-07-03 at 23:24 +0200, Hans wrote: > I believe I got a solution. However, you may not be happy with it, > but maybe it will work.
Thanks to Hans for the detailed list, which I was not able to use successfully. I had probably either broken something first, or didn't follow the instructions precisely correctly. I had been unable to install the NVidia drivers available as nvidia- driver. After doing the steps outlined at https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Debian_12_.22Bookworm.22, the response was "you have held broken packages." None of the recommended clean-up steps resolved the problem. I got the driver to install using this sequence: 1. Fresh OS install WITHOUT either Gnome or KDE or any other display manager 2. Boot at level 3 3. Revise /etc/apt/sources.list as recomended 4. apt update 5. apt upgrade # not apparently required, but apt update said I could upgrade nine packages 6. apt install nvidia-driver firmware-misc-nonfree I didn't need to get an NVIDIA*.run file from the NVidia driver download page and try to compile it myself. I have no idea why it failed to install at first. Maybe it had nothing to do with Gnome. I had installed gcc and gfortran and Intel OneAPI and nedit and gkrellm and ... (I don't remember the entire list). But nvidia-driver installed with a fresh OS install followed by installing nvidia-driver.
