Nvidia Graphics Drivers

Nvidia Graphics Drivers

Identification

We can usually be identified installed video card using the lspci command. For example:

$ lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga"
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS] [10de:0193] (rev a2)

1 2	$ lspci -nn \| egrep -i "3d\|display\|vga" 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation G80 [GeForce 8800 GTS] [10de:0193] (rev a2)

Installation

Debian 9 “Stretch”

1. Add “contrib” and “non-free” components to /etc/apt/sources.list, for example:

deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free

1	deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ stretch main contrib non-free

2. Update the list of available packages. Install the appropriate linux-headers and kernel module packages:

 aptitude update
 aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') nvidia-driver

1 2	aptitude update aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r\|sed 's,[^-]-[^-]-,,') nvidia-driver

This will install the NVIDIA-driver package. DKMS will build the NVIDIA module for your system, via the NVIDIA-kernel-dkms package.

3. Create a Xorg server configuration file.
4. Restart your system to enable the nouveau blacklist
5. To allow a higher resolution.

Resolution 1920×1080

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    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0"
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "Files"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/psaux"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "kbd"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
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    ModelName      "Unknown"
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    VertRefresh     55.0 - 75.0
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    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
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Section "Screen"
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    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    SubSection     "Display"
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        Modes      "1920x1080_60.00"
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"

Identifier "Layout0"

Screen 0 "Screen0"

InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"

InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"

EndSection

Section "Files"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default

Identifier "Mouse0"

Driver "mouse"

Option "Protocol" "auto"

Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"

Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no"

Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"

EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

# generated from default

Identifier "Keyboard0"

Driver "kbd"

EndSection

Section "Monitor"

Identifier "Monitor0"

VendorName "Unknown"

ModelName "Unknown"

HorizSync 30.0 - 80.0

VertRefresh 55.0 - 75.0

DisplaySize 400 225

Modeline "1920x1080_60.00" 172.80 1920 2040 2248 2576 1080 1081 1084 1118 -HSync +Vsync

Option "DPMS"

EndSection

Section "Device"

Identifier "Device0"

BusID "PCI:1:0:0"

Driver "nvidia"

VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"

EndSection

Section "Screen"

Identifier "Screen0"

Device "Device0"

Monitor "Monitor0"

DefaultDepth 24

SubSection "Display"

Viewport 0 0

Depth 24

Modes "1920x1080_60.00"

EndSubSection

EndSection

Resolution 1920×1080