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How To: Nvidia drivers in #! or Debian stable

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http://crunchbanglinux.org – This is for cards that need the current driver. If you need a legacy driver (173 or 96) there are dkms packages as well, but I have no way to test them. Good luck!I have seen a few people having trouble with the proprietary Nvidia drivers on crunchbang. It should not be this way as installing the Nvidia drivers is quite painless in Debian. The most important step is do not download the drivers from Nvidia, everything you need is in the repositories.Please note that this will install the 195 series drivers. If you need or want the latest version (260) add the experimental repository, they are a (HowTos)

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Hi I installed nvidia drivers using terminal... i added the newest repositories, to ensure getting the newest driver, once that was complete, i ran the following command

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manutortosa wrote:Probably you need the nvidia legacy drivers.Try installing nvidia-304xx nvidia-304xx-utils and lib32-nvidia-304xx-utils, is the old version of the driver and needed for many cards now.Done. But freeze still goes on. Nothing changed with these drivers.

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Hi all,

I was able to get my nvidia card working a few days ago using the beta driver I downloaded from Nvidia and installed it the hardway. I did all of the suggested setup by adding nomodeset as a boot option, changing NO_KMS_IN_INITRD to "yes" as well as blacklisting "nouveau.