On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 08:42:47PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > I hope to be installing Debian in a new computer in about a week or > so. It will have a Haswell processor and I hope to be able to get by > with the built in video. But, if it doesn't work well I have an > Nvidia 8600GT card I can take from my old system. > > But, I really don't know what's involved in switching. If the Intel > video drivers are installed and I shutdown, install the Nvidia card > and reboot I assume the system won't load X, although I'll have the > command line to work with. I have a little experience with Aptitude > and apt-get, will installing the correct drivers remove the old ones? Installing the new driver won't remove the old one. Both drivers can co-exist on the same system (imagine someone with two graphics cards). Typically, what you would do is install the new driver and start X with no configuration file. X would then auto-detect the new card and load the new driver, ignoring the old one[1]. > And what package name would I have to use to install Nvidia's drivers > from the repository. I would start with xserver-xorg-video-nvidia. But the "nvidia-driver" metapackage may also be suitable. > I have (almost) always used Nvidia's drivers > downloaded from their site because when I search in Synaptic for > nvidia I'm not sure which packages I need to install. > > Thanks, > Jon > [1] I believe there are complications with 3D acceleration as, I think, only one driver can provide the system's libGL. > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] CANcvmg2DCWO_HVSsZqcd5jB1gUT9tt4mTj=2y-aKDOKWFoDTbA@mail.gmail.com">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] CANcvmg2DCWO_HVSsZqcd5jB1gUT9tt4mTj=2y-aKDOKWFoDTbA@mail.gmail.com >
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