On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 06:36:14 +0300, Lars wrote in message <47850509-8a3c-3d51-ed44-f0416e372...@gmail.com>:
> On 01/15/2018 06:13 PM, Chillfan wrote: > [snip] > > Try with the official NVIDIA drivers and see what happens. > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers ..does your machine work with the nouveau driver? ..you are trying to install a 375 version nvidia driver. ..beware that Nvidea cuts off support of their older hw, and dumps people with old hw onto their "legacy" drivers, or, onto nouveau. ..all my Nvidea hw has worked right right both on installs, and on merely swapping out a Radeon HD4890 for a GeForce GTS-250 (thrown in for free to pad 'n fill up the box) that my powersupply could handle, on the nouveau driver. It has only failed me getting blacklisted on my attempts to try the nvidia driver. :o) > Thanks. I've been unable to install the driver. Would I have to get > that straight from Debian? See below for the missing dependencies. ..does any of these have hidden or undeclared systemd dependencies? (Such things can happen by accident too.) > Looking at the task manager in XCFE and top in the shell, the RAM and > swap usage eventually start to climb more and more rapidly until >99% > of RAM is in use and >99% of swap. Then the machine locks up, mouse > pointer last. > > Another way to trigger a lock-up 100% of the time is to run qemu for > anything. > > /Lars > > $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-driver > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have > requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable > distribution that some required packages have not yet been created > or been moved out of Incoming. > The following information may help to resolve the situation: > > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > nvidia-driver : PreDepends: nvidia-installer-cleanup but it is not > installable > PreDepends: nvidia-legacy-check (>= 343) but it is > not going to be installed > Depends: nvidia-driver-libs (= 375.82-1~deb9u1) but > it is not going to be installed > Depends: nvidia-driver-bin (= 375.82-1~deb9u1) but it > is not going to be installed > Depends: xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (= > 375.82-1~deb9u1) but it is not going to be installed > Depends: nvidia-vdpau-driver (= 375.82-1~deb9u1) but > it is not going to be installed > Depends: nvidia-alternative (= 375.82-1~deb9u1) but > it is not going to be installed > Depends: nvidia-kernel-dkms (= 375.82-1~deb9u1) but > it is not going to be installed or > nvidia-kernel-375.82 > Depends: nvidia-support but it is not installable > Recommends: nvidia-settings (>= 375) but it is not > installable > Recommends: nvidia-persistenced but it is not > installable E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken > packages. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
