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nVidia graphics drivers on Debian?

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Annorax:
Now that I've had to push Ubuntu aside for Debian, can someone explain just how the hell I'm supposed to get nVidia display drivers on this thing? There's no Debian official installer, and I don't know shit about anything else...

ReggieMicheals:
When I had debian, the installer allowed me to choose the driver you wanted. When it asks you what display driver you want, scroll down to Nv. That is the nvidia driver...

piratePenguin:
nvidia.com

@Reggie: They're the free nvidia drivers - not Nvidia's.

Aloone_Jonez:
Are they any better though?

piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Are they any better though?
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AFAIK, the free nvidia driver ('nv') doesn't have hardware acceleration because nvidia isn't releasing the documentation the developers need, and nobody's trying to reverse engineer the nvidia drivers or anything like that.

Same goes for ATi except people are trying to get free drivers with hardware acceleration out, and they're doing a pretty good job sofar. But it's still not easy, what they're doing.

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