NVIDIA GeForce Driver installation on Debian Jessie Linux 8 64bit

The easiest-to-install NVIDIA GeForce Driver on Debian Linux 8 (Jessie) (for Debian 9 Stretch visit:how to install The latest NVIDIA drivers on Debian 9 Stretch Linux) are to use official contrib and Non-free Debian repository. First, add the following non-free and contrib repositories to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Therefore, first change the content of your /etc/apt/sources.listFile to include contriband non-freePackages eg.:

Deb Http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/jessie main contrib non-freedeb-src Http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/jessie main Contrib Non-free

Next, update your repositories:

# Apt-get Update

At the nvidia-driverPackage becomes available for the installation:

# Apt-get Install nvidia-drivernvidia-current:running module version sanity check. -Original Module   -No Original module exists within this kernel-installation   -installing to/lib/modules/3.16. 0-4-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-uvm.ko:running Module version sanity check. -Original Module   -No Original module exists within this kernel-installation   -installing to/lib/modules/3.16. 0-4-amd64/updates/dkms/depmod .... Dkms:install completed. Setting up Nvidia-settings (340.46-2) ... Setting up Libegl1-nvidia:amd64 (340.65-2) ... Setting up Xserver-xorg-video-nvidia (340.65-2) ... Setting up Nvidia-driver (340.65-2) ... Processing triggers for Libc-bin (2.19-13) ... Processing triggers for initramfs-tools (0.116) ...

During the installation you'll see a notification on conflicting version of the free software nouveau nvidia driver W ITH your currently being installed Non-free nvidia kernel module which you can simply ignore.

Conflicting Nouveau kernel module loaded the free                                                                             nouveau kernel module are currently loaded and conflicts with the non -free nvidia kernel module. The easiest-to-reboot the machine once the installation have finished.

Wait for the installation to finish and once do generate a new /etc/X11/xorg.confXorg configuration file with nvidia-xconfigCommand. First, install nvidia-xconfigPackage

# Apt-get Install Nvidia-xconfig

After the installation is finished execute nvidia-xconfigcommand to generate new /etc/X11/xorg.confConfig file:

# nvidia-xconfignew X configuration file written to '/etc/x11/xorg.conf

If The above command shows message about the lack of a previous /etc/X11/xorg.confConfig file simply disregard it and reboot your system to load a newly installed Nvidia driver. After the reboot, login to your desktop and start the official nvidia-settingsConfiguration tool either from command line:

$ nvidia-settings

or by starting it using a relevant menu under the Start button to access more Nvidia graphic card configuration settings. Original: Https://linuxconfig.org/nvidia-geforce-driver-installation-on-debian-jessie-linux-8-64bit

NVIDIA GeForce Driver installation on Debian Jessie Linux 8 64bit