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-Tips and tricks related to hardware
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-I recently upgraded by PC from an Nvidia 1050 Ti card to a new 3060 Ti
-card. I've been updating the drivers for this card since before there
-was a Debian package, so I've been through the installation quite a few
-times and run into my share of weird issues. This last upgrade was no
-exception, so I figured I'd document the process in case anyone out
-there is as bad at installing these as me!
-
-## Step 1: The Replacement
-
-The best part of installing a new graphics card is getting to open up
-the guts of your computer (it's also the scariest part, since this is
-also the best opportunity to knock out a hard drive or a RAM stick).
-Fortunately this is pretty easy, first make sure you hit the little lever
-(switch?) on the PCI slot to pop out the old card. Then just slide the
-new guy in. Note though to people getting a card from the RTX 30 line
-(or higher) -- these cards run pretty big, so make sure you have enough
-space in you case. You can see I barely made it myself!
-
-A second note to RTX users: most if not all these cards come with an
-extra power supply input (two 8-pin connectors). If your power supply is
-short on outputs, you can get a splitter cable like the one you see in
-the picture to match the inputs. I personally am running a 600 W supply
-for everything right now, which seems to be running fine. You should
-check some other power guides though if you're concerned your power
-supply won't drive the card
-
-## Step 2: Re-installing the drivers
-
-At first I tried to just naively update and see what happened, but I
-received a "broken packages" error for nvidia-driver and other related
-packages after running this.
-
-```bash
-$ sudo apt update
-$ sudo apt upgrade
-```
-
-This turned out to be a two-part error, one was the driver itself, two
-was an update in Debian sid.
-
-### Part one: Fix Broken Packages
-
-Whenever I see broken packages, I tend to to assume that the name of a
-package got updated. In this case, there was a
-[note](https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#non-free-split)
-on the apt list changes that mentioned a separate "non-free-firmware"
-branch had been made, which had some of the components I needed. I
-just added "non-free-firmware" to my /etc/apt/sources.list:
-
-```
-deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
-```
-
-Note: you may not need "non-free" here anymore, I simply had that since
-that was where the package used to be.
-
-### Part two: Re-install nvidia-driver
-
-I tried to update again at this point, but encountered the same error.
-At this point I figured the best thing to do was to just try to
-reinstall all nvidia related software again:
-
-```bash
-$ sudo apt purge nvidia-*
-$ sudo apt update
-$ sudo apt upgrade
-```
-
-Ok no errors on the update this time, let's try again:
-
-```bash
-$ sudo apt install nvidia-driver
-```
-
-### Part negative three: Just in case
-
-In the dark days before the Debian team had an Nvidia package, you had
-to install drivers manually. I haven't had to do this in years, but I
-like having the option. You can download the latest drivers on their
-website:
-
-https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver
-
-The file will have a really long name like
-"NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-525.89.02.run," so I suggest renaming it first to
-something like "driver.run"
-
-In order to run this file, you need to stop your graphics environment.
-Press CTRL + ALT + F1 to log out and open a terminal-only session.
-Login with your credentials. Then stop the X-server
-
-```bash
-$ sudo service lightdm stop
-```
-
-If you use a different X manager you might need to replace "lightdm"
-with "gdm" or "kdm" (Gnome and KDE). Now we can run the driver install:
-
-```bash
-$ sudo chmod +x driver.run
-$ sudo ./driver.run
-```
-
-Accept all the prompts and you'll have the factory made driver software.
-Note, you have to manually update this way though. So try to figure out
-the nvidia-driver package before resorting to this method!
-
-## Step three: Reboot and test
-
-Reboot and then check the Nvidia X server setting panel
-(nvidia-settings) to make sure your card is detected correctly
-
-
-But the ultimate test right now is Kerbal Space Program 2 (still in
-early access)
-
-