Debian: Install Nvidia Proprietary Unix Drive

The NVIDIA Linux proprietary unified drivers supports various features such as 3d rendering, opengl and much more. This post covers installing and configuring NVIDIA’s proprietary graphic card driver for Debian Linux 6 amd64.

Why use proprietary Unix driver? You will get full 3D acceleration support. This allows you to use the following applications with 3D and OpenGL under Linux:
1. Games such as PlanetPenguin Racer, Extreme Tux Racer, Neverball, and many more.
2. Linux video editing application such as cinelerra and others.
3. Use 3d desktop effect provided by compiz – a compositing window manager for the X Window System. It use 3D graphics hardware to create fast compositing desktop effects for window management.

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