issue installing graphics card driver in Debian (sluggish KDE)
I have an NVIDIA GTX 260M card which is one of the more high-end mobile graphics cards, and so should certainly be able to handle any GUI. All that I've read has said that Debian 5.x should have built-in support for NVIDIA cards. But when I'm logged in, all the menus and stuff in KDE are really sluggish and frame-skippish. So I naturally assume, no built-in graphics card support. Since so far I can't figure out where in Linux I have to go to look at my hardware specs (to see if my card is recognized), I get online download the applicable proprietary driver file. Due to my job, I'm about 6 months away from having internet access to my own laptop, where the problem is occurring, so I have to download it on my work computer and copy it over.
I find the necessary driver file from nvidia.com, NVIDIA-Linux-x86-190.53-pkg1.run (I'm using a 32-bit version of Debian, even though my laptop is quadcore). Now, I can't figure out what to do to install this .run file. Double-clicking it seems to do nothing but open a text file and then lock up my computer for half an hour. What do I need to do to get my card working now? Thanks for the help |
To install the nvidia proprietary drivers from their page you need to be in a true console (no X/gui running) and run
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I'm not sure of the graphical tools in Debian proper, but I would assume that, like Ubuntu which is Debian based, you could add non-free repositories, and then do a search for the nvidia drivers. It will probably be an older driver version though, so you would need to make sure that the version available from the repositories supports your particular card. |
is /path/to/ literally /path/to/, or do you mean like /home/ or whatever directory I have the file?
I can't directly download on my laptop, so I have to download on this computer and copy the files to my own computer(due to work restrictions) |
To get into a non-X environment and install the driver I believe you can do this:
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I mean the path to the driver such as
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great thanks. I'll all this out and post here how it worked out tomorrow
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Good luck. Be aware that you may be using kdm (kde display manager) or xdm (x-windows display manager) rather than gdm.
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ran into another issue. First it told me to install binutils. so I restarted kde and installed binutils from my dvd repositories. Ran install process again. This time it tells me to install gckl (or something like that), so again I install it from my DVDs. Run the installation for a third time, and it tells me I need 'make'. I check my DVDs for this, and there is no 'make'. What is it, and where can I get it? I didn't find much info elsewhere, and I'm not really sure why I don't already have it as part of the initial Debian install because it seems to be a pretty core file. My repository does have 'mmake', but it says that its already installed. I don't know if the two are related or not. any tips on getting past this 'make' roadblock?
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those commands should work offline, right?
(I have a very annoying situation requiring my linux laptop to not be online at all) |
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can it just be downloaded separately so I can put it on a thumbdrive and transfer it?
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If you need to download packages for offline usage you might take a look at:
Welcome to Sushi, huh? package downloader for offline GNU/Linux systems - http://sushi-huh.sourceforge.net/ For installing nvidia I always just run smxi |
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http://www.gnu.org/software/make/ I found this, which leads me to http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/make/
Is that the right thing? It has the line "GNU Make has many powerful features for use in makefiles, beyond what other Make versions have", so I'm not sure if its some special version of make, or if it will work for what I need |
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