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Nvida Drivers Install (Just came from Fedora)

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Nvida Drivers Install (Just came from Fedora)

#1 Post by icecold7777 »

Hey there Debian Community. Don’t go to harsh on me now I am brand new here heh, Anyways just installed Debian and installed Neofetch so I could see if Debian is picking up my GPU which it is in fact detecting that I am currently on my GTX 970 anyways, the resolution is stuck at 1024x768 which I assume is because of me not installing the Nvida Proprietary drivers yet so before I freak out about my resolution I wanted some help installing my Nvida Drivers and see if that fixes it first. I tried the way I normally install Fedora Drivers on Debian but obviously instead of using the Fedora Commands I replaced them with the Debian ones but it didn’t really install anything.. Maybe im just looking over something? Any suggestions, All responses are appreciated thanks :D

Heres a overview of how I usually install them when i do this on fedora:


1. sudo rpm --import 'http://negativo17.org/repos/RPM-GPG-KEY-slaanesh'
2. sudo dnf config-manager --add-repo='http://negativo17.org/repos/fedora-nvidia.repo'
3. sudo dnf update
4. sudo dnf install nvidia-driver nvidia-settings nvidia-driver-libs.i686 dkms-nvidia kernel-devel && sync
5. sudo dnf install nvidia-xconfig
6. sudo nvidia-xconfig

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Re: Nvida Drivers Install (Just came from Fedora)

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Hi there - Here is a guide to installing nVidia driver in Debian

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install- ... etch-linux

I use this driver on my Debian Sid/Butch
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Jimmyfd wrote:Hi there - Here is a guide to installing nVidia driver in Debian

https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install- ... etch-linux
This guide tells you to install llvm and clang. These are not used with proprietary nVidia drivers, nor is MESA used with blob.

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Jimmyfd wrote:Hi there - Here is a guide to installing nVidia driver in Debian https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-install- ... etch-linux

Firmware The first step in installing the firmware is to enable the contrib and non-free repositories in Debian. Open up /etc/apt/sources.list in you favorite text editor as root, and add contrib non-free to the end of every line after main. Save and exit. Now, run an system update. # apt update && apt upgrade Use apt instead of apt-get. It is the newer version, and tends to handle conflicts better.
This doesn't make sense. After adding 'contrib non-free' to sources, there won't be anything to upgrade because nothing from them are installed yet?

Also, I haven't seen any documentation that reports that apt is any better than apt-get...

There is a wiki for nvidia that is probably where I'd go first.
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
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This is the guide I used to install nVidia driver on my Debian system - Thus it must be right on other Debian systems too
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#6 Post by bw123 »

OP has a similar thread with more info here
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=134680
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#7 Post by stevepusser »

Jimmyfd wrote:This is the guide I used to install nVidia driver on my Debian system - Thus it must be right on other Debian systems too
Yet it has upgrade instead of install a missing firmware package, and says to install clang for no reason whatsoever. Sorry, why should we accept this sorry mess instead of the wiki entry again?
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#8 Post by sunrat »

bw123 wrote:OP has a similar thread with more info here
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=134680
The reply posted in that thread by stevepusser is exactly the method I used to install nvidia-driver for my GTX970 which is running at 3840 x 2160. No config files necessary, it autodetects correct resolution.


@ icecold7777 - is there some reason that didn't work for you?

PS. that howto posted earlier is one of the worst I've seen on the internet. It says to install several useless packages (llvm, clang) and skips several essential ones (module-assistant or kernel headers). And why the hell would you need to add i386 architecture on a 64 bit system? Yeah, Steam but that's not the subject of the howto. :roll:
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