Re: Lost usb wifi device

[Gregory Sharp]

 On Wednesday, July 8, 2020, 08:38:54 PM EDT, Dan Ritter 
 wrote:
Gregory Sharp wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My usb wifi connection has been working for two years, and it just stopped 
> and can't figure out why. This is on Debian testing. Help!
>

If you boot with a Debian stable live-USB or similar, does it work?

--
Yes, it seems to. I didn't go as far as to configure it to make it actually 
work, but it does show up when I type "ip link".
-Greg
  

Re: Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

[Gregory Sharp]

On Fri, 09 Nov 2018 13:10:38 +0100
floris  wrote:

> Gregory Sharp schreef op 2018-11-08 19:01:
> > 
> > Questions:
> > 
> > 1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed?
> > 
> > 2) What might be a recommended upgrade path for me?  
> 
>  From bug 903770 [1]:
> 
> ... the nvidia packages in stretch-backports now require mesa+libglvnd
> from stretch-backports.
> 
> You could try to install mesa, libglvnd and xorg from backports first.
> 
> 
> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903770

Aha.  That explains it.  Thank you much for the link.

I have verified that (1) removing backports from the list of
repositories allows upgrading stable, and (2) a dist-upgrade of nvidia-driver
from stable to stretch-backports installs mesa, etc., which allows upgrade
without removing important packages.

Greg

Installing nvidia-driver removes xorg

[Gregory Sharp]

I am currently running stretch with the nvidia display driver.  The
nvidia-driver package is not installed.  Instead, the nvidia-kernel-dkms
package and other packages needed for the display driver and CUDA are
installed. 

While attempting an upgrade to CUDA 9 in backport, I learned that installing 
nvidia-driver (either version: 384.130 or 390.87) would uninstall xorg, gdm3,
libreoffice, and many other seemingly useful packages.

Questions:

1) Why should xorg be uninstalled when nvidia-driver is installed?

2) What might be a recommended upgrade path for me?