HOWTO: Installing nVidia Grapics Drivers on Debian Etch
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By MrKrrtft at 2005-12-27 01:03
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')
These are the steps that I found to work for me. I started to do it the "Deban Way" with Debian packages, but I couldn't find nvidia-kernel-source in Debian Etch. After experimenting with a botched Debian Testing netinst, I reinstalled with the default packages (base system, Graphical Desktop, base system config after a reboot). X came up just fine using the 'nv' X server.From all the reading I did on the Internet there is a drawback to this method. If you build your own kernel, or update your system and this update changes X config files you will have to do this again. However, the only step you have to do is the last one: sh NVIDIA-Linux-X86...Please leave any suggestions in the comments at the site for the main article and I will make changes as I can.
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Download the install-nvidia-debian.sh script and run it as root.