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Which Nvidia card should I use

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J.Val
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Which Nvidia card should I use

#1 Post by J.Val »

Hi,

I have been trying to follow the Nvidia Graphics Driver instructions at:
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

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.

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 lspci -nn | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200] [10de:084b] (rev a2)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] [10de:0614] (rev a2)
Perhaps my 8200 is to old. I do have a GeForce GT 610, would this be a better card to use.

Thanks,
Val
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Re: Which Nvidia card should I use

#2 Post by bigrigdriver »

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.

Hopefully that's all you need to do.
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Re: Which Nvidia card should I use

#3 Post by J.Val »

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
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Re: Which Nvidia card should I use

#4 Post by Ardouos »

J.Val wrote:Hi,

I have been trying to follow the Nvidia Graphics Driver instructions at:
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

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.

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 lspci -nn | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200] [10de:084b] (rev a2)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G92 [GeForce 9800 GT] [10de:0614] (rev a2)
Perhaps my 8200 is to old. I do have a GeForce GT 610, would this be a better card to use.

Thanks,
Val

Is this a laptop or a desktop we are dealing with? I am leaning more towards laptop for some reason.
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Re: Which Nvidia card should I use

#5 Post by squeeze »

Have you created a xorg.conf with both cards in it? Have you used a search engine to find clues on how-to install 2 nvidia cards in linux?
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Re: Which Nvidia card should I use

#6 Post by J.Val »

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.

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Re: Which Nvidia card should I use

#7 Post by dilberts_left_nut »

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
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Re: Which Nvidia card should I use

#8 Post by J.Val »

I agree, but I have used this same Nvidia card while I was running Fedora and had no problems with the drivers supplied for it.
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