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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> +</body> +</html> |