On Sun, 3 Dec 2023 00:04:23 +
tom cullen wrote:
> Hi, I'm having considerable trouble finding a way of making my Debian
> Bookworm (laptop) installation locate and use my laptop's Nvidia
> graphics card.
>
> There are several 'how-tos' available online, but having tried one
> which resulted in me needing to reinstall Debian Bookworm I am
> reluctant to try any others. I am new to the Linux way of doing
> things and like your operating system very much, and gaining use of
> my laptop's full graphical power would make using your OS complete.
Have you looked at the Debian wiki write-up?
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers
There are also free drivers for Nvidia cards. Others will know more
about them than I do.
If you have more question, it will help us if you identify your card
exactly. To do this, open a terminal window (I gather from what you
said that you have some graphics capability, but not all you want), and
copy and paste the following command, and run it.
lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga"
Then copy and paste the results from the first prompt to the trailing
prompt into your email. E.g.:
charles@jhegaala:~$ lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga"
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core
Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09)
charles@jhegaala:~$
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