Nvidia Drivers
I know they are not free software and I know it's not ethical, but I need the performance for my work computer.
I get a error while stopping the xserver. I get
No suitable module for running kernel found
*Starting virtaulBox kernel modules
*
*
get's stock on
* checking battery state...
and that's it. I can't get back to the conman line to finish the installation.
Any help would be great!
"I know it's not ethical"
But you do it anyway. Sorry, but the Trisquel community won't help you run proprietary software.
That's not ethical either.
If he wants to run a proprietary software, it's bad for him, but for no one else.
Think of a friend of yours wants to do something bad for him and maybe unethical (but only concerning him, so don't come along with cheating with a wife or something like this) and he wants your help.
You would refuse it even after giving him the advice not to do so?
That's really bad.
You should show to the world, that free software breaks down walls between people.
This is a sad example how things can go wrong.
If I could, I would advise him not to do it; but then I would help him of course.
Go with another distro.
Don't use Trisquel if you're going to use non-free software.
Using nonfree software is not unethical, but you victimize yourself by doing so. What would be unethical is to help you victimize yourself.
Why do you need better 3D acceleration, anyway? I'm able to use Nouveau on an old Nvidia card for playing games like Xonotic and Minetest with good graphics settings at the same time that GNOME Shell is running. The only work I can imagine that needs 3D is 3D graphics design or something similar, and it seems to me it would work fine with what Nouveau offers.
I agree both with quantumgravity and onpon4.
I like the Nouveau module, my computer has two Trisquel versions, one being the latest version (6.0, Toutatis) and the other being version 5.5 (Brigantia). I'm testing version 6.0, but my favorite so far is version 5.5.
I like to use version 5.5 in conjunction with the latest Linux-libre kernel, which in turn gives almost perfect 3D acceleration support for native Linux games and programs. (Just don't ask me how, I don't understand Linux modules very well). This has a downside, when installing version 5.5 on a computer that must use a wireless antenna to connect to the Internet, some essential modules are missing from the default installation.
As I said early, I'm currently testing version 6.0. I'm currently having some issues with the 3D acceleration, and using the Linux-libre kernel, in this Trisquel version, doesn't fix the problem. In the other side, I just tested my live USB which has Trisquel 6.0 on my mother's notebook which has an "Atheros" wireless network card, and it works like a charm.
Two weeks ago, also with Trisquel 6.0, I had no luck when trying to get my aunt's notebook to connect to the internet using a Broadcom wireless network card, so I wrote a letter to her and sent it together with the notebook. I suggested her to connect to the Internet using a wired connection (which can also serve as a host for a wireless connection), or to buy a wireless network USB adapter, which is an USB antenna used for this purpose. Aw... I think I got tired of using APT Offline and Synaptic to download things from the Internet to my working computer, and from this one to my aunt's notebook.
Best regards, ADFENO.
Have a nice day.
I am a member!
atmancloud: which Linux-libre version are you using?
$ uname -r
Trisquel 6.0 uses Linux-libre 3.2.0 by default. You can use 3.5.0 by installing the "linux-generic-lts-belenos" package from Trisquel repos.
You could also try newer Linux-libre versions from http://jxself.org/linux-libre or https://launchpad.net/~linux-libre .