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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. At this point, as long as
+you're still seeing your desktop, you should be
+good to go! I ran Kerbal Space Program 2
+(currently in early access) as my first test.
+
+![](/static/ksp2.webm)
+
+Looking good, Jeb!