Installation of a Nvidia graphics Card

Find out what graphics card is installed

sudo lspci | grep -i vga

Then search the driver for the video card

nvidia-kernel-dkms
(For GeForce 6xxx and higher GPUs)

nvidia-kernel-legacy-173xx-dkms
(For GeForce 5xxx / GeForce FX GPUs.)

nvidia-kernel-legacy-96xx-dkms
(For GeForce 2, GeForce 3 and GeForce 4 GPUs.)

List which driver must be installed for which card

Install the Nvidia driver

sudo aptitude update

sudo aptitude -r install linux-headers-$(uname -r|sed 's,[^-]*-[^-]*-,,') nvidia-kernel-dkms

Configuring the Xserver

sudo mkdir /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

sudo echo -e 'Section "Device"\n\tIdentifier "My GPU"\n\tDriver "nvidia"\nEndSection' > /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf

sudo reboot

Congratulations now the Nvidia graphics card is installed

--Sascha Trott (talk) 21:07, 10 November 2013 (MSK)