[SOLVED] Help installing Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Driver - hP pavilion

[Stevo]

If you compare glxspheres64 with and without the "optirun", you'll get a rough idea of how much faster the Nvidia card renders 3D than the Intel one.

I edited Google Earth Pro's command in the menu so it uses the Nvidia Card, because

A: it's faster
B: it doesn't work with the "intel" driver I use, though it does with the default modesetting driver for the Intel GPU.

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optirun /opt/google/earth/pro/google-earth-pro %f

[benji]

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full upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
   libqt4-network (4:4.8.7+dfsg-18)
Use 'apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be upgraded:
   firefox (70.0.1~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1 => 71.0~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1)
   libnss3 (2:3.42.1-1+deb10u1 => 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u2)
   mx-conky (19.9.01 => 19.12)
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 55.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 301 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates/main amd64 libnss3 amd64 2:3.42.1-1+deb10u2 [1,160 kB]
Get:2 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 firefox amd64 71.0~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1 [54.4 MB]
Get:3 http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo buster/main amd64 mx-conky amd64 19.12 [129 kB]                                                              
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(Reading database ... 277785 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../firefox_71.0~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking firefox (71.0~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1) over (70.0.1~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../libnss3_2%3a3.42.1-1+deb10u2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libnss3:amd64 (2:3.42.1-1+deb10u2) over (2:3.42.1-1+deb10u1) ...
Preparing to unpack .../mx-conky_19.12_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking mx-conky (19.12) over (19.9.01) ...
Setting up nvidia-persistenced (418.56-1) ...
Starting NVIDIA Persistence Daemon
nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript nvidia-persistenced, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package nvidia-persistenced (--configure):
 installed nvidia-persistenced package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 1
Setting up firefox (71.0~mozillabinaries-1mx19+1) ...
Setting up libnss3:amd64 (2:3.42.1-1+deb10u2) ...
Setting up mx-conky (19.12) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-4) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.62) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.28-10) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.4-1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 nvidia-persistenced
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

full upgrade complete (or was canceled)

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When i update or install program I get an error "Errors were encountered while processing:
nvidia-persistenced"

is this a problem becoz of nvidia driver?

[Stevo]

Try this in the terminal:

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sudo apt remove nvidia-persistenced

That should only be ever installed on systems where the Nvidia card is primary, such as a desktop, since its purpose is to keep the Nvidia card turned on at all times--which is not what you want with Optimus.

I think that's a bug for Optimus in MX NI, and it's pulled in by installing the recommends. We may have to resort to just installing each package individually for Optimus laptops.

[benji]

When I removed nvidia-persistenced i ran into the same problem of acpi error screen