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+<nav id="TOC" role="doc-toc">
+<h2 id="toc-title">Contents</h2>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#step-1-the-replacement">Step 1: The Replacement</a></li>
+<li><a href="#step-2-re-installing-the-drivers">Step 2: Re-installing
+the drivers</a>
+<ul>
+<li><a href="#part-one-fix-broken-packages">Part one: Fix Broken
+Packages</a></li>
+<li><a href="#part-two-re-install-nvidia-driver">Part two: Re-install
+nvidia-driver</a></li>
+<li><a href="#part-negative-three-just-in-case">Part negative three:
+Just in case</a></li>
+</ul></li>
+<li><a href="#step-three-reboot-and-test">Step three: Reboot and
+test</a></li>
+</ul>
+</nav>
+<p>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!</p>
+<h2 id="step-1-the-replacement">Step 1: The Replacement</h2>
+<p>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!</p>
+<p>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</p>
+<h2 id="step-2-re-installing-the-drivers">Step 2: Re-installing the
+drivers</h2>
+<p>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.</p>
+<div class="sourceCode" id="cb1"><pre
+class="sourceCode bash"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb1-1"><a href="#cb1-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo apt update</span>
+<span id="cb1-2"><a href="#cb1-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo apt upgrade</span></code></pre></div>
+<p>This turned out to be a two-part error, one was the driver itself,
+two was an update in Debian sid.</p>
+<h3 id="part-one-fix-broken-packages">Part one: Fix Broken Packages</h3>
+<p>Whenever I see broken packages, I tend to to assume that the name of
+a package got updated. In this case, there was a <a
+href="https://www.debian.org/releases/bookworm/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#non-free-split">note</a>
+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:</p>
+<pre><code>deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ sid main contrib non-free non-free-firmware</code></pre>
+<p>Note: you may not need "non-free" here anymore, I simply had that
+since that was where the package used to be.</p>
+<h3 id="part-two-re-install-nvidia-driver">Part two: Re-install
+nvidia-driver</h3>
+<p>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:</p>
+<div class="sourceCode" id="cb3"><pre
+class="sourceCode bash"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb3-1"><a href="#cb3-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo apt purge nvidia-<span class="pp">*</span></span>
+<span id="cb3-2"><a href="#cb3-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo apt update</span>
+<span id="cb3-3"><a href="#cb3-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo apt upgrade</span></code></pre></div>
+<p>Ok no errors on the update this time, let's try again:</p>
+<div class="sourceCode" id="cb4"><pre
+class="sourceCode bash"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb4-1"><a href="#cb4-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo apt install nvidia-driver</span></code></pre></div>
+<h3 id="part-negative-three-just-in-case">Part negative three: Just in
+case</h3>
+<p>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:</p>
+<p>https://developer.nvidia.com/vulkan-driver</p>
+<p>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"</p>
+<p>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</p>
+<div class="sourceCode" id="cb5"><pre
+class="sourceCode bash"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb5-1"><a href="#cb5-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo service lightdm stop</span></code></pre></div>
+<p>If you use a different X manager you might need to replace "lightdm"
+with "gdm" or "kdm" (Gnome and KDE). Now we can run the driver
+install:</p>
+<div class="sourceCode" id="cb6"><pre
+class="sourceCode bash"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb6-1"><a href="#cb6-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo chmod +x driver.run</span>
+<span id="cb6-2"><a href="#cb6-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo ./driver.run</span></code></pre></div>
+<p>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!</p>
+<h2 id="step-three-reboot-and-test">Step three: Reboot and test</h2>
+<p>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.</p>
+<p><video src="/static/ksp2.webm" controls=""><a
+href="/static/ksp2.webm">Video</a></video></p>
+<p>Looking good, Jeb!</p>
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