Control: severity -1 normal Control: close -1 On Fri, 2016-12-30 at 19:20 -0300, Mariel Opazo Damiani wrote: > Package: nvidia-driver > Version: dont know, had to purge it out of the system. Latest one available > right before Dec 30, 2016. > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system > > Dear Maintainer, > > Was trying to install an nvidia video card driver because linux didnt detect > it existed at all. > First tried with the package nvidia-detect but it said it didnt detect > anything. > Then I manually downloaded the driver from nvidias webpage, installed it and > nothing changed, no video card detected. > Then moved onto the last thing I had read to work and added a non free > repository so I could downlaod nvidia-smi and nvidia-driver. > Downloaded both and also the package nvidia-xconfig, used the command > "nvidia-driver" and followed it with "nvidia-xconfig", restarted the computer > and it wouldnt boot. > Had to purge all nvidia related packages out of my system and restore the > file "xorg.conf" to its previous state (completely blank) to get my computer > to work again. > > The video card in question is NVIDIA GeForce 940-mx (2GB). Checked the > supported video cards by NVIDIA and mine is one of them.
On an optimus system the base driver cannot be installed by itself. See https://wiki.debian.org/Bumblebee To use the proprietary driver on an optimus system the bumblebee-nvidia package is needed. Furthermore, as Nvidia's website states, the minimum driver version for the 940mx is the 352 series, so the nvidia-driver in jessie is too old. Make sure to install all the packages from backports: sudo apt-get install -t jessie-backports bumblebee-nvidia So closing this as invalid. If you have issues with bumblebee, please open a separate bug against that package. Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
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