On 2016-03-15 05:28, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 15/03/16 00:44, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-03-14 14:28, Basil Chupin wrote:
I would experiment with the driver, if I knew how to revert without much pain to nouveau, i.e a working system. When you want the proprietary driver, blacklist 'nouveau', when you want nouveau, un-blacklist it. Rebuild initrd. Strange -- I have never done this (rebuilding initrd). I just compile/install the driver and reboot. If you don't, the initrds still contains the nouveau module, it gets loaded, and nvidia module refuses to load. And viceversa.
You have to compile the nVidia driver to work with the kernel you are using and when you go to compile it with the nouveau driver installed you get an error message and the nVidia driver will NOT compile until the nouveau driver is removed.
Yes, I did that, nvidia driver loaded fine, tested startx, I rebooted, and it failed to load. Nouveau was loaded again. I checked, run mkinird, rebooted, and it was ok, nividia.
I use the kernel in the .../Kernel:/stable/standard repository and have to compile the driver every time the kernel is upgraded -- sometimes on a daily basis. I don't run mkinitrd and I don't have any problems with compiling the driver.
Because you were not running nouveau the previous time, thus no need to remove it again. It is the first time, when you do the switch, that you have to do all those things. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)