This needs to be done because Steam and some other applications have dependencies on the i386 architecture. Before we install any programs first we need to enable the 32 bit architecture.

You will need to add main non-free contrib to all the Debian repository mirror links if it’s not already been added.

If you found you’re card great!! You will need to edit the sources list, which will allow you to install the Nvidia drivers, and other libraries. You will need to go the Nvidia Site, and search for your card by using the hex code and card name. You should see two cards which are the Intel graphics card and the one in question your Nvidia card!! In your terminal you will need to run the following command: lspci -nn | egrep -i '3d|display|vga' After you’ve logged back in and opened your terminal check if your Nvidia card is supported for the Nvidia drivers (dunno why this should be done, all Nvidia should have drivers :D). Let’s fire up the terminal and before you start installing the drivers and any other applications and libraries let’s do a update on Debian. In my blog, not only I’m going to discuss about the installation process but also how to set up your applications that will use the Nvidia discrete graphics card. Alot of them did mention how to install drivers with Laptops that has the hybrid setup but it was only how to install them. Contributing to this SteamOS is a Debian based distro.Īlot of the content I’ve seen on YouTube and read about for installing drivers for Nvidia card were mostly for desktops and really old laptop that only have Nvidia GPU (Kudos to the people who wrote blogs/articles and publishing videos on YouTube, it gave me a really good starting point!!!). Manually switching between your graphics and then rebooting to find out your stuck on the login page……and then the screen goes black :D. Nvidia Hybrid Graphics card doesn’t work properly on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. One of my main reason to switching from Ubuntu to Debian.

Install intel graphics driver in debian