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Installing nVidia drivers on debian linux

Posted November 2, 2007 * Comments(2)

Since I forget the steps every single time I try to install or upgrade linux I’ll write them down.

  1. download the drivers from www.nvidia.com (usually a file with .run extension)
  2. download the kernel header files — apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
  3. execute the command — sh path to the nvidia driver here

There is another method I found, that seems to work for a lot of people:

  1. apt-get install module-assistant
  2. m-a prepare
  3. m-a auto-install nvidia