Nvidia on Debian

1. Lets remove first everything that point to any existing nvidia installation.

open a terminal and type:

sudo apt-get remove nvidia*

sudo apt-get autoremove

2. Update and download a few tools that we will need:

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)

3. This part is (optional) but its is recommended:

    Install 32 bit support:

    dpkg --add-architecture i386

    sudo apt-get update

    sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5

    sudo apt-get update

4. Now its time to blacklist the nouveau driver.

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf

and add the following lines:

    blacklist nouveau
    blacklist lbm-nouveau
    options nouveau modeset=0
    alias nouveau off
    alias lbm-nouveau off

5. Disable the Kernel nouveau by typing the following commands:

echo options nouveau modeset=0 | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau-kms.conf

sudo update-initramfs -u

6. Download Nvidia drivers from nvidia.com and:

cd ~/Downloads/

chmod u+x NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42.run

7. Stop the X-server:

sudo /etc/init.d/gdm3 stop

8. Execute the installation:

sudo ./ NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-361.42.run

9. Reboot