DISCUSSION: HOWTO: Installing nVidia Grapics Drivers on Debian Etch

XavierP · 01-11-2006, 02:59 PM

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One of my pet peeves with Linux is not having the 3D Accelleration available while in Linux. Since my Windows hard drive completely failed, working in Linux hasn't been so bad, but a couple of the games I like to play are a bit slower due to software rendering. Below I outline the steps I took to get the nVidia drivers (1.0-8178 at the time of this writing) working with a default netinst of Debian Testing.

Get into pure console mode (runlevel 3)

Reboot into Recovery Mode or switch down to runlevel 3 or the equivalent
apt-get update
apt-get install binutils

Install Kernel Source

apt-get install linux-source-2.6.12 - replace 2.6.12 with your kernel version ('uname -a' or 'uname -r')
cd /usr/src
tar -jxvf linux-source-2.6.12
ln -s linux-source-2.6.12 linux

Install Kernel Headers

apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.12-1 linux-headers-2.6.12-1-386

Install nVidia Drivers

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-8178-pkg1.run

Finally, Reboot to get back into X.

Sepero · 10-15-2006, 03:10 AM

Here is the link for doing it the true "Debian Way".
http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debi...tallation.html

craigevil · 10-15-2006, 03:45 AM

If your running Debian Etch or Sid, Kano's Kanotix script works as well.

Download the install-nvidia-debian.sh script and run it as root.