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Debian Software Installation

nVidia Display Driver Installation

  • First, download the latest drivers from www.nvidia.com
  • Next, ensure that you have the header files for you current kernel installed. If not, do the following as root:
unknown:~# uname -a
Linux unknown 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Wed Feb 21 16:06:54 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
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** The above gives let's you know which kernel you have installed. You then need to do the following:
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unknown:~# apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686
    • Replace the kernel version in linux headers with whichever kernel version you currently have. This will install the kernel headers into /usr/src.
  • Next, we need to install the nVidia drivers:
unknown:~# sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-9746-pkg1.run --kernel-source-path=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-686
    • Note the use of the --kernel-source-path portion of the command. This is because the debian headers package does not place the headers in a place that the Nvidia driver installation program can find it. This lets it know exactly where to put it.
  • The drivers should compile, and the newer nVidia installation package even rewrites your xorg configuration file so that it loads the drivers properly.
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