Short version: Please help me install the Nvidia drivers for a GTX 970 on a Bookworm system. Is there a Q&D guide that doesn't assume I'm an idiot, or is it easy enough to explain?
Long version: Yes, I'm the same guy who was considering the Nouveau driver a while back. I decided to try the stock driver because there was so much trouble installing Nouveau, plus I got the idea that it'd be significantly less performant than the proprietary one. Well, the Nvidia driver's not being cooperative either. Or maybe it's just me. X won't run with the card but no driver so it boils down to * shut down * get out of the chair * unplug a monitor from the motherboard * plug in the GTX * connect the monitor to the GTX * boot * get back in chair * do some stuff until it doesn't cooperate * shut down * get out of chair * unplug, remove, connect, boot * get back in the chair Then (maybe) find out what I did wrong. I can only do this procedure a few times a day until I'm worn out, so needless to say progress is very slow. So, here's what I've installed: nvidia-alternative (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-driver (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-driver-bin (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-driver-libs (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-egl-common (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-egl-icd (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-installer-cleanup (20220217+3~deb12u1) nvidia-kernel-common (20220217+3~deb12u1) nvidia-kernel-dkms (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-kernel-support (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-legacy-check (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-modprobe (535.161.07-1~deb12u1) nvidia-persistenced (535.171.04-1~deb12u1) nvidia-settings (535.171.04-1~deb12u1) nvidia-smi (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-support (20220217+3~deb12u1) nvidia-suspend-common (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-vdpau-driver (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-vulkan-common (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) nvidia-vulkan-icd (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libnvidia-allocator1 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libnvidia-cfg1 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libnvidia-egl-gbm1 (1.1.0-2) libnvidia-egl-wayland1 (1:1.1.10-1) libnvidia-eglcore (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libnvidia-encode1 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libnvidia-glcore (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libnvidia-glvkspirv (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libnvidia-ml1 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libnvidia-pkcs11-openssl3 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler1 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libnvidia-rtcore (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) linux-compiler-gcc-12-x86 (6.1.99-1) linux-headers-6.1.0-23-amd64 (6.1.99-1) linux-headers-6.1.0-23-common (6.1.99-1) linux-headers-amd64 (6.1.99-1) linux-kbuild-6.1 (6.1.99-1) glx-alternative-mesa (1.2.2) glx-alternative-nvidia (1.2.2) glx-diversions (1.2.2) dkms (3.0.10-8+deb12u1) firmware-nvidia-gsp (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libcuda1 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libegl-nvidia0 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libgles-nvidia1 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libgles-nvidia2 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libgles1 (1.6.0-1) libglx-nvidia0 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) libnvcuvid1 (535.183.01-1~deb12u1) Early in the boot, if the GLX is out, there's a message "No Nvidia card detected.". Not sure what's making it or what that line says if the GLX is in. By "early" I mean "within a few lines after the fsck". (Maybe nvidia-persistenced.service?) When the computer goes to boot into X, the backlight flashes 10ish times, maybe once per second, and then I can ctrl-alt-F1 and log in. The card is one of these: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GM204 [GeForce GTX 970] [10de:13c2] (rev a1) Please let me know what further info would be helpful. -- An ASCII character walks into a bar and orders a double. "Having a bad day?" asks the barman. "Yeah, I have a parity error," replies the ASCII chrcter. The barman says, "Yeah, I thought you looked a bit off." - Skud
