Debian help...

[Jhewett95]

So I have 2 boot drives in my current PC one is running windows 8.1 and the other is running debian 7 wheezy, over the last 2 days I have been trying and failing to install nvidia drivers for my graphics card, since the graphics is stuck at a stupidly low 1024x800 or something on my 1920x1080 monitor, which is apparently unknown when i try to change the resolution, I also noticed that in the personalisation window when I move the cursor it disappears and re-appears when I run over icons. I have had no luck in finding video walk-throughs, I have also noticed that instead of the smooth black drop down menus that are supposed to come with gnome3 out of the box I'm left with gross looking white drop downs. Which is all fairly frustrating because I installed Linux mint 16 on my laptop which worked out of the box. I'm running a 64 bit version as well if that helps. Any help is appreciated since Linux is relatively new to me.

[rashdanml]

I'd suggest the proprietary drivers, the following steps should install it:

 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-331

 

May work for Debian (the above steps work on Ubuntu and other Ubuntu derivatives too). 

 

You could also try: 

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Version_304.88

[Jhewett95]

I'd suggest the proprietary drivers, the following steps should install it:

 

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nvidia-331

 

May work for Debian (the above steps work on Ubuntu and other Ubuntu derivatives too). 

 

You could also try: 

https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Version_304.88

The output the first command line was "Error: need a repository as argument"

and the second command line output was lots of http then "E: Unable to locate package nvidia-331"

[rashdanml]

The output the first command line was "Error: need a repository as argument"

and the second command line output was lots of http then "E: Unable to locate package nvidia-331"

Use the link I posted; that's specific to installing drivers on Debian. 

[Jhewett95]

Use the link I posted; that's specific to installing drivers on Debian. 

Thanks for the help, but I have decided to abandon Debian before I jump off a bridge onto a train track. Ubuntu is looking much more alluring now.