Guide to installing NVIDIA GPU Drivers on Debian Based OS.
What are Drivers?
A driver is a piece of software that acts as a translation layer between the applications & OS running on your computer and the physical hardware present in the system. By default when you install Debian using one of our templates on your GPU VDS, you may notice that the GPU doesn't show up on your applications. To get Debian & your applications to detect your GPU, you'll need to install the relevant drivers for it.
Installing Drivers
1. Log in to your VPS as root via SSH
2. Detecting the GPU
In your terminal, run the following command:
lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d|display|vga"
The output should have a line with Nvidia on it with the generation of your GPU.
3. Adding non-free Repository
Open your sources.list file
Paste the following at the end of the file depending on the version of debian that you're using
Update your package manager
4. Install the driver
First, install the nvidia-detect package to see and run it.
At the end of the output, you should see something like this:
Note down the package name(s) it shows and install it via apt
5. Reboot your VPS
Now, Reboot your VPS with the following command.
And done! You've successfully installed NVIDIA Drivers on your Debian VPS.
