(Solved) Howto install nvidia drivers in squeeze?

[novaphile]

Hello people,

It seems that I'm learning a bit about Debian in the last couple of days...

Here's the thing. I don't appear to be getting any 3D accelaration from my video card at the moment.

Having tried many things (which all failed) and making a mess of my computer I have done the following things:

1. Reinstalled Lenny from scratch.
2. Updated sources to point to stable and allowed update manager to do its thing.

I now appear to have a working build of squeeze.

X is up and running fine, but when I check /var/log/xorg it appears that I'm running the NOUVEAU driver, which does not support the 3D functionality of the card.

So... What is the best method for getting the appropriate driver installed?

My last attempt ended up with nvidia-glx fighting with xorg, so I'm hoping that someone will have up to date instructions that I can follow...

[dasein]

1) The quickest, surest way to get a clean Squeeze install is to install Squeeze.

2) The Wiki, along with several existing threads on this forum, tell you how to install nVidia drivers. The "dkms" option is the easiest and lowest-maintenance method.

As a courtesy to your fellow forum members, please search before you post.

Example: http://www.google.com/search?q=nvidia+s ... debian.org

See also: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=47078

[vbrummond]

Simple:

1. Install a few packages by running the following commands as root.

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apt-get install nvidia-glx nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig nvidia-kernel-dkms dkms

2. It should build automatically, if not you need to install the headers for your kernel.

3. Run the following command and reboot:

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nvidia-xconfig

[novaphile]

Thank you dasein your help is appreciated.

Unfortunately those are the instructions that I followed last time, which resulted in X not running, mainly because installing nvidia-glx caused xorg to be uninstalled.

Hopefully I'm starting from a better state this time.

[novaphile]

Bravo vbrummond! all installed and sorted in one fell swoop!

[4D696B65]

The post by vbrummond is correct. The wiki is out of date.

[buntunub]

The post by vbrummond is correct. The wiki is out of date.

Well, if that’s true then that is a sad sad state of affairs for the Debian project. That Wiki comes up first in every Google hit for Nvidia Debian and any combination thereof.