{"id":1072,"date":"2009-12-26T03:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-25T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2009-12-26T03:17:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-25T21:47:24","slug":"installing-nvidia-video-drives-on-debian-testing-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suramya.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/installing-nvidia-video-drives-on-debian-testing-squeeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Nvidia Video drives on Debian Testing (Squeeze)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The default VGA drivers in Debian Testing worked fine for normal use, but when I tried to activate some of the effects like Fade, Shadow, Translucency etc the system told me that it couldn’t do it. I thought that this could be because I have an Nvidia video card and hadn’t installed the Nvidia driver yet.<\/p>\n

I tried installing it using synaptic but for some reason when I added the nvidia driver it told me that I would have to remove pretty much most of my xorg (the GUI backend) install. So I aborted it. Did a little search on the web and found the following instructions to install the driver at pendrivelinux.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n

  • Log in as root<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Type apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)<\/em> (to install the Linux headers)<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Type cd \/usr\/src<\/em> (Change to the source directory)<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Type ln -s linux-headers-$(uname -r) linux<\/em> (To create a virtual link ‘linux’ that points to the latest linux-headers downloaded)<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Type wget http:\/\/us.download.nvidia.com\/XFree86\/Linux-x86\/100.14.23\/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.23-pkg1.run<\/em> (Download the NVIDIA installer)<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Type \/etc\/init.d\/gdm stop<\/em> (to stop gdm and drop to a terminal)<\/li>\n

    <\/p>\n

  • Type cd \/usr\/src && sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.23-pkg1.run<\/em> (to launch the nVidia installer script)<\/li>\n

    \nI ran all the commands above but the installer kept telling me that the kernel-headers were missing. Tried a couple of things that didn’t work. <\/p>\n

    Finally ran NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.23-pkg1.run –help<\/em> to see what command line parameters are supported by the installer. Noticed that they had a –update<\/em> parameter that was supposed to update the installer to the latest version. I ran the installer with –update<\/em> and it downloaded the latest version of the installer. After the download completed it automatically ran the installer which updated my system without any errors.<\/p>\n

    So if you are trying to install the nvidia drivers using the installer and it keeps complaining about the headers missing even though you have them installed try running it with the –update option. <\/p>\n

    Now I have all the effects I wanted to enable working fine.<\/p>\n

    – Suramya<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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