[SOLVED] issue installing graphics card driver in Debian (sluggish KDE)
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I still think the easiest thing for you to do might be to just get the available nvidia drivers from the repositories. It would be 3 or 4 files instead of dependency after dependency.
It looks like you can get the 190.53 drivers for debian there. Which is the latest stable Nvidia driver. You can go to Nvidia's site and look to see what is supported by each driver to see if you can just use whatever is available from the repos. You can google around for supported products for the 180.XX drivers.
Do you have NO access from your Debian machine or is it just LIMITED access?
I'm in Afghanistan at the moment, and I can only access the net via my work computer, and my personal computer can't be put on a government network. So I'm limited to either ordering download compilations from linuxcd.org or downloading small 5-10mb files on my work computer and transferring them over.
If you have that many disks, then make is on one of them. It's going to be in development. Hell the nvidia drivers might be in there as well under non-free.
I checked for Make but it wasn't there. the closest thing was 'mmake.' I didn't think they were the same thing because the description said something about java.
I didn't think to check for NVIDIA drivers, but I don't think the set has any proprietary software
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going to try them out soon as I can
