Hi,
On 10/06/2020 11:18, Peter P. wrote:
oliver and me have been struggling to get nvidia binary drivers to work on his Debian stable laptop. Their intended use is with Gem, hence I would like to know if in 2020 the preferred way to install them is with Debians nvidia-legacy-390xx-kernel-dkms package
Sure, if that is the correct version supported by the hardware. I think on my old laptop I needed the 340xx legacy version (EOL), I can check later but I think I installed nvidia-legacy-340xx-driver meta-package that pulled in the dkms package as a dependency, among other things.
or with some install script downloaded from nvidia's webpage?
I prefer the Debian way. But whatever you do, mixing them is a recipe for pain, so purge one completely before trying the other.