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I have recently installed Debian 8.3 and have unsuccessfully tried to install the Nvidia drivers for my GeForce 8200. On the wiki page it asks that you select the correct driver version from the supported devices. My GeForce 8200 is listed in all the versions except that I beleave the PCI address is incorrect.
The Nvidia installer will probably fail if you are in runlevel 5 (graphics mode) and if you have an nvidia module loaded.
Try this:
1 open a terminal and type init 3 to get to text mode.
2 remove the nvidia module with the command rmmod nvidia.
3 run the nvidia installer.
4 when the installation in complete, enter the command init 5 to get back to graphics mode.
I currently do not have the Nvidia driver installed, because I do not know which version to use. The previous times that I tried brought me to a text screen. I tried to 'startX' which gave me errors like Nvidia not found and no screens available.
So I have now reinstalled Debian 8.3 and am wondering what to do next.
-Val
Debian 8.3 64bit (Installed April. 2016)
Memory 3Gb
Video nVidia GeForce 9800GT 512Mb DDR3, CPU AMD Phenom 9550
Disk Samsung HD103SJ 1Tb 3Gb/s (Installed April 2010)
I have recently installed Debian 8.3 and have unsuccessfully tried to install the Nvidia drivers for my GeForce 8200. On the wiki page it asks that you select the correct driver version from the supported devices. My GeForce 8200 is listed in all the versions except that I beleave the PCI address is incorrect.
First this is a desktop PC and I am only trying to use a single video card. The grep command is for my oldest video card. Not certain why it reports 2 GPUs.
-Val
Debian 8.3 64bit (Installed April. 2016)
Memory 3Gb
Video nVidia GeForce 9800GT 512Mb DDR3, CPU AMD Phenom 9550
Disk Samsung HD103SJ 1Tb 3Gb/s (Installed April 2010)
J.Val wrote:First this is a desktop PC and I am only trying to use a single video card. The grep command is for my oldest video card. Not certain why it reports 2 GPUs.
-Val
Step 1 is to become certain - no point trying to configure your system when you don't know what it is.
Probably an on-board gpu? Disable it in the BIOS(sic).