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omen

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Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 12

Howto: Nvidia Geforce Fx 5500, proprietary graphics driver

This is my own step by step manual to install proprietary graphics driver NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.28-pkg1.run from the nvidia dot com site.

• 1.

Download driver from official site & put it in your user directory, for example /home/omen/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.28-pkg1.run | where is omen - your user name.

• 2.

Run terminal and put some commands there:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) nvidia-kernel-source

• 3.

3.1 ctrl+alt+F1
3.2 put your name and password
3.3 sudo killall gdm
3.4 put password
3.5 sudo -s -H with ctrl+enter
3.6 sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.28-pkg1.run

• 4.

The Nvidia will start installation, but
if it asked about GCC - press NO
if it asked about running Nouveau - just create a simple file that will be given through installation process & restart because the installation process will be close or say: ERROR
repeat 3.1 - 3.6 steps
## or go through ctrl+alt+F1
## name \ pass
## sudo su
## service gdm stop
## sudo -s -H with ctrl+enter
## sh ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86-173.14.28-pkg1.run

• 5.

Wait untill nvidia installation will finish & when it ask about nvidia-configure or creating xorg.conf - press NO
5.1 put Xorg -configure into the command line
5.2 sudo mv "/root/xorg.conf.new" "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
5.3 sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
5.4 you must change "nv" or "nouveau" to "nvidia" & press F3 + OK
reboot

• 6.

In the terminal from the already booted debian, gdm put:
nvidia-settings and make some changes, when you`ve done, press X Server Display Configuration, then Save to X configuration file, then show preview and make Ctrl+C or Copy all the text and take it to the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.

That`s all.

My FX 5500 show this after put glxgears in the terminal:
10101 frames / 2020 FPS on liqurix kernel
10110 frames / 2021 FPS on stable kernel

Last edited by omen (2011-02-09 08:00:17)

anonymous

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From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 8,905

Re: Howto: Nvidia Geforce Fx 5500, proprietary graphics driver

Was there something wrong with the two previous how-tos?

http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … e-fx-5200/
http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … r-squeeze/

Choice is a good thing but I think theres only so many ways of installing the Nvidia driver

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omen

Member

Registered: 2011-01-17

Posts: 12

Re: Howto: Nvidia Geforce Fx 5500, proprietary graphics driver

Was there something wrong with the two previous how-tos?

Yes, I think so because one of them is not for proprietary driver for OLD video-card at all. And a second one is too short: no information about xorg.conf configuration, about pre-installation commands etc.

Last edited by omen (2011-02-10 14:43:25)