Nvidia drivers

[shreda]

@f33dm3bits -> "You don't need to do that, just disable secureboot"

I don't have secureboot on the PC.

 

[f33dm3bits]

I didn't even come to the point of installing the driver 580. It is a problem before the installation of the very driver.

All you need to is open a terminal and run the following.

sudo apt install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-driver

It should then install the 550 driver from the Debian repos.

 

[shreda]

From 1972 till 1994 I was on Unix and then I switched to Debian. The supercomputer I make use of for decades is under Debian. I don't see any impetus to change the distro. On my 2nd PC I reverted back to nouveau. At least for the time being. I lost too much time trying to install NVIDIA. Hope I'll survive
@f33dm3bits -> "apt install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-driver"
I tried that as well. Doesn't work.

 

[f33dm3bits]

At least for the time being. I lost too much time trying to install NVIDIA. Hope I'll survive
@f33dm3bits -> "apt install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-driver"
I tried that as well. Doesn't work.

"Doesn't work" doesn't mean anything. You didn't even describe what didn't work or share output of something that doesn't work. Also you seemed to have enabled the extrepo for nvidia-cuda before. Could be that it left something behind that could cause a conflict when you were trying to install the nvidia driver from the Debian repo.

Either remove all the nvidia packages from your system and disable the cuda-nvidia repo which you had enabled with extrepo and the install the nvidia driver from the Debian repos as how it's described in the Debian wiki. Or just reinstall and then just following the Debian wiki instructions of how to install the Nvidia driver. You're making it too hard on yourself installing, installing an nvidia driver is not that hard on Debian, but do whatever you like cause it doesn't seem like you are planning to be gaming if you are satisfied with the nouveau driver.

 

[shreda]

nvidia seems to be no-go for my PC; I reverted back to nouveau; so far it didn't freeze; I switched of sleeping mode in bios; perhaps, it was the culprit.

@f33dm3bits -> ""Doesn't work" doesn't mean anything."
You are right. The first thing I started with was "apt install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-driver" etc. Everything (steps and installation) went fine but when I rebooted the computer the screen went wild with all kinds to torn flickering graphical artefacts and I was left without graphical interface. Then I made a second attempt but that one was unsuccessful as well as you know. Then in the last attempt I cleaned all extrepo remnants and all nvidia files and followed Debian 13 NVIDIA Drivers Install Guide [Wayland / X11] [590.48.01 / 580.126.09] As I wrote above, everything went fine till rebooting:
When selecting “Debian GNU/Linux NVIDIA Update” from grub menu the booting stacks at

Gave up waiting for root file system device
Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
Check rootdelay
Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
Alert! UUID=74c1c554-b07b-474c-a0b4-f221d2d77859 does not exist. Dropping to a shell
(initramfs)

See above. That inability of the system to access the ssd during the nvidia booting seems to be the culprit. Perhaps even during my first attempt with the 550 driver.

And I'm reluctant to reinstall Debian because that would be require a reinstallation of applications (Mathematica, Maya, ...) as well and that would likely cause me problems with proprietors (Wolfram, Autodesk, ...).

If you could help me resolving the inability of the system to access the ssd during the nvidia booting that would be great.