Bug#996595: nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver: NVIDIA service is not starting with the system

[Alessandro Reis de Alcântara]

I installed the package with apt...

apt install nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver

Em dom., 17 de out. de 2021 18:26, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org>
escreveu:

> On 17/10/2021 19.32, Alessandro Reis de Alcântara wrote:
> > I uninstalled every single package from nvidia and libnvidia again. Then
> I
> > reinstalled nvidia-legacy-390xx-driver. The libnvdia-cfg1 was installed
> > together again, I have no clue why.... But then, I removed the
> > libnvidia-cfg1 package. And then I was able to get the nvidia daemon up
> at
> > initialization.
>
> What command line or which graphical tool did you use to install the
> nvidia driver? Something seems to resolve the dependencies and
> recommendations differently than in my tests (where I don't see that
> library installed).
>
> I'll try to make the mere presence of libnvidia-cfg1 but no other driver
> components to no longer enable the "current" nvidia alternative (which
> has higher priority than the legacy one).
>
> > I just had a problem starting the cinnamon. I had to modify the
> > "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf" to get it
> working
> > fine. The file had to be like this:
>
> If you need to make modifications, place them in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/
> otherwise they get overwritten on upgrades.
>
> Andreas
>
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