On 3/2/2026 00:07, Haines Brown via Dng wrote:
> My monitor is Del S2721Q5 4 K 3840x216o
>
> Somewere along the line it was suggested I do # xorg -configure. I
> have no such command.
>
> The # nvidia-detect says to install nvidia-driver which I did
>
> The command # modprobe nv says module not found
> The xorg log EE says nv module not found.
>
> I did not cook my video card because I can boot from another disk
> and can run startx and have (low resollution) video.
>
> When I tried to install the packages suggested, nvidia-persistenced
> failed to initialize. Couid no process
> nvidia-persistenced --configure. As result could not configure
> nvidia-driver-full. [not sure of spelling of nvidia-persistenced]
>
Always happens here too. nvidia-persistenced is only Recommends on
nvidia-detect so you can install without it:
# the dash at the end of a package name tells apt to remove the package
apt install nvidia-driver nvidia-persistenced-
I only install nvidia-driver and everything else just works after a
system reboot. I don't use a display manager, only `exec startx` from a
console login, but that shouldn't make a difference.
Still works after a recent upgrade from daedalus to excalibur.
# apt policy nvidia-driver
nvidia-driver:
Installed: 550.163.01-2
Candidate: 550.163.01-2
Version table:
550.163.01-4~bpo13+1 100
100 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur-backports/non-free
amd64 Packages
*** 550.163.01-2 500
500 http://deb.devuan.org/merged excalibur/non-free amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
# nvidia-detect
Detected NVIDIA GPUs:
65:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GP102
[GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] [10de:1b06] (rev a1)
Checking card: NVIDIA Corporation GP102 [GeForce GTX 1080 Ti] (rev a1)
Your card is supported by all driver versions.
Your card is also supported by the Tesla 535 drivers series.
It is recommended to install the
nvidia-driver
package.
# lsmod | grep nvidia
nvidia_drm 118784 0
drm_ttm_helper 16384 1 nvidia_drm
drm_kms_helper 253952 2 drm_ttm_helper,nvidia_drm
nvidia_modeset 1605632 1 nvidia_drm
video 81920 1 nvidia_modeset
nvidia 60702720 1 nvidia_modeset
drm 774144 6
drm_kms_helper,nvidia,drm_ttm_helper,nvidia_drm,ttm
# dpkg -l | grep nvidia
ii firmware-nvidia-graphics 20250410-2
all Binary firmware for Nvidia GPU chips
ii firmware-nvidia-gsp 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA GSP firmware
ii glx-alternative-nvidia 1.2.2
amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii libegl-nvidia0:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL library
ii libgl1-nvidia-glvnd-glx:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX library (GLVND variant)
ii libgles-nvidia1:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 1.x library
ii libgles-nvidia2:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL|ES 2.x library
ii libglx-nvidia0:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary GLX library
ii libnvidia-allocator1:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA allocator runtime library
ii libnvidia-cfg1:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX configuration library
ii libnvidia-egl-gbm1:amd64 1.1.2.1-1
amd64 GBM EGL external platform library for NVIDIA
ii libnvidia-egl-wayland1:amd64 1:1.1.18-1
amd64 Wayland EGL External Platform library -- shared
library
ii libnvidia-eglcore:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL core libraries
ii libnvidia-encode1:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVENC Video Encoding runtime library
ii libnvidia-glcore:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary OpenGL/GLX core libraries
ii libnvidia-glvkspirv:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary Vulkan Spir-V compiler library
ii libnvidia-gpucomp:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary GPU compiler library
ii libnvidia-ml1:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA Management Library (NVML) runtime library
ii libnvidia-pkcs11-openssl3:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA PKCS #11 Library (OpenSSL 3)
ii libnvidia-ptxjitcompiler1:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA PTX JIT Compiler library
ii libnvidia-rtcore:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary Vulkan ray tracing (rtcore) library
ii nvidia-alternative 550.163.01-2
amd64 allows the selection of NVIDIA as GLX provider
ii nvidia-detect 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA GPU detection utility
ii nvidia-driver 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA metapackage
ii nvidia-driver-bin 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA driver support binaries
ii nvidia-driver-libs:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA metapackage (OpenGL/GLX/EGL/GLES libraries)
ii nvidia-egl-common 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary EGL driver - common files
ii nvidia-egl-icd:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA EGL installable client driver (ICD)
ii nvidia-installer-cleanup 20240109+1
amd64 cleanup after driver installation with the
nvidia-installer
ii nvidia-kernel-common 20240109+1
amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii nvidia-kernel-dkms 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module DKMS source
ii nvidia-kernel-support 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary kernel module support files
ii nvidia-legacy-check 550.163.01-2
amd64 check for NVIDIA GPUs requiring a legacy driver
ii nvidia-modprobe 570.133.07-1
amd64 utility to load NVIDIA kernel modules and
create device nodes
ii nvidia-settings 550.163.01-1
amd64 tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
ii nvidia-smi 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA System Management Interface
ii nvidia-support 20240109+1
amd64 NVIDIA binary graphics driver support files
ii nvidia-suspend-common 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA driver - systemd power management scripts
ii nvidia-vdpau-driver:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix -
NVIDIA driver
ii nvidia-vulkan-common 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA Vulkan driver - common files
ii nvidia-vulkan-icd:amd64 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA Vulkan installable client driver (ICD)
ii xserver-xorg-video-nvidia 550.163.01-2
amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver
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