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Re: Commodore OS and nVidia GTX 1080 / Drivers / No Boot

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Okay. Finally a solution.

The Google Earth public key can be fixed via the following: (MX-Linux to the rescue)

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sudo checkaptgpg
Everyone should issue that command.

TorProject is proving more difficult to work out. They renewed their public key and every online suggestion on how to fix the issue doesn't work.
If you have a better idea, then go for it, but as far as I am a concerned, the Tor Browser has turned out to be more effort than it is worth.
Therefore I suggest we disable updates to the TOR browser by removing their repository listing entirely.
This won't prevent you from using the TorBrowser, just prevent updates, which weren't happening anyway.

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sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/tor.list
Then do an update of Commodore OS, or if you're stuck in text mode, the aforementioned update commands.

When this is done. Have another go of the nvidia driver installation that was discussed earlier in this thread.

Let me know if this fixes the issue. If so we will require a critical patch update.
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Re: Commodore OS and nVidia GTX 1080 / Drivers / No Boot (solution?)

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If problems persist with the nvidia drivers you might want to try out the following...
https://mxlinux.org/wiki/hardware/nvidi ... -recovery/
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Re: Commodore OS and nVidia GTX 1080 / Drivers / No Boot (solution?)

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Thanks for this. I am able to install the drivers now however upon reboot I still get the blinking cursor on the top left and it doesn't get past that. Have to press CTRL-ALT-F1 to login and remove the nvidia drivers to be able to boot back into OS / GUI.

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Re: Commodore OS and nVidia GTX 1080 / Drivers / No Boot (solution?)

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Okay, so the problem is with the nVidia proprietary drivers right? Not the Nouveau open source ones?
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Re: Commodore OS and nVidia GTX 1080 / Drivers / No Boot (solution?)

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Seems like it's just a configuration change to a file that needs to be done for the ligthdm window manager in order to use the nvidia video driver rather than Nouveua. Idk.

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Commodore OS and Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 Mobile / Drivers

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I'm trying to install drivers for Nvidia GTX 1060 Mobile (Optimus mode) using "Nvidia driver installer".

Installation seems to succeed but running

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nvidia-settings
command after reboot I get:

"ERROR: NVIDIA driver is not loaded

ERROR: Unable to load info from any available system".

I have tried following the suggestions here without success:
viewtopic.php?t=708

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nvidia-detect
detects the card as expected.

Any ideas?
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Re: Commodore OS and Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 Mobile / Drivers

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sudo modprobe nvidia
gives me:
modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia-current not found in directory /lib/modules/6.11.5-amd64
mpdprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:980 command_do() Error running install command 'modprobe -n nvidia-current ' for module nvidia: retcode 1
modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Invalid argument

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Re: Commodore OS and Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 Mobile / Drivers

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I noticed this message during the driver installation. I'm not sure if its related.
Loading new nvidia-current-470.256.02 DKMS files...
Building for 6.11.5-amd64
Module build for kernel 6.11.5-amd64 was skipped since the
kernel headers for this kernel does not seem to be installed.

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Re: Commodore OS and Nvidia Geforce GTX 1060 Mobile / Drivers

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Trying the obvious:

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sudo apt-get install linux-headers-6.11.5-amd64
gives me:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
gcc-14 : Depends: gcc-14-x86-64-linux-gnu (= 14.2.0-8)
Depends: cpp-14 (= 14.2.0-8) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: binutils (>= 2.39) but 2.35.2-2 is to be installed
linux-headers-6.11.5-amd64 : Depends: linux-kbuild-6.11.5
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

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Re: Nvidia driver issues

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Admin: All posts regarding nVidia driver issues have been moved to this thread topic.
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