After installing debian 8 (jessie) on my GA-H170N-WIFI with Nvidia GTX970, there are many hardwares not working properly. After digging for some time, I finally get everything working. So I am going to write this simple note to help people might need this in the future (for me as well).
Today is 2016/6/25, many things may be fixed in the future
Things not working properly after installation:
- Audio chip
Realtec ALC1150built on GA-H170-WIFI- Detected, even can detect if front 3.5mm is plugged, but no sound came out
- Bluetooth and WIFI
Intel AC 8260shipped with GA-H170-WIFI- Nothing detect, maybe only bluetooth
- Graphic card
Nvidia GTX 970to play 3A games on Windows- GUI works but laggy when playing youtube, I suppose it's software rendering
My hardware is somehow new to linux, many things are on backports
echo 'deb http://httpredir.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main contrib non-free' >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get updateIt appears to be a linux 3.16.0 kernel bug, Audio just come out after using linux kernel 4.5/4.6.
apt-get install linux-image-4.5.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 linux-headers-4.5.0-0.bpo.2-all-amd64I guess that's all
Then reboot.
apt-get install -t jessie-backports firmware-iwlwifi bluemanI have even tried to use solution from here, but it seems using backports is enough
Then reboot. I install blueman because it brings a better bluetooth management GUI tool.
apt-get install -t jessie-backports nvidia-driver xserver-xorg-video-nvidia nvidia-detect update-glx nvidia-settingsActually I used
aptitude -t jessie-backportsto install, which I can choose nvidia-driver version 352.79
Then reboot. At first my GUI was totally dead if I didn't install nvidia-settings.
If you find something wrong in this note, please let me know, I am new to a native linux system >_< (I've been always using linux in vm)