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<li><a href="#step-1-the-replacement" id="toc-step-1-the-replacement" target="_self">Step 1: The Replacement</a></li>
<li><a href="#step-2-re-installing-the-drivers" id="toc-step-2-re-installing-the-drivers" target="_self">Step 2: Re-installing the
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<li><a href="#part-one-fix-broken-packages" id="toc-part-one-fix-broken-packages" target="_self">Part one: Fix Broken
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<li><a href="#part-two-re-install-nvidia-driver" id="toc-part-two-re-install-nvidia-driver" target="_self">Part two: Re-install
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<li><a href="#part-negative-three-just-in-case" id="toc-part-negative-three-just-in-case" target="_self">Part negative three: Just in
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<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.</p>
<p>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
your case. 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 <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Liyafy-Female-Splitter-Power-Extension/dp/B07S8RWJYQ">this
one</a> 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 aria-hidden="true" href="#cb1-1" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo apt update</span>
<span id="cb1-2"><a aria-hidden="true" href="#cb1-2" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</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 aria-hidden="true" href="#cb3-1" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo apt purge nvidia-<span class="pp">*</span></span>
<span id="cb3-2"><a aria-hidden="true" href="#cb3-2" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo apt update</span>
<span id="cb3-3"><a aria-hidden="true" href="#cb3-3" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo apt upgrade</span></code></pre></div>
<p>Ok no errors on the update this time, let's try again:</p>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb4"><pre class="sourceCode bash"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb4-1"><a aria-hidden="true" href="#cb4-1" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</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 aria-hidden="true" href="#cb5-1" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo service lightdm stop</span></code></pre></div>
<p>If you use a different X manager you might need to replace "lightdm"
with "gdm" or "kdm" (Gnome and KDE). Now we can run the driver
install:</p>
<div class="sourceCode" id="cb6"><pre class="sourceCode bash"><code class="sourceCode bash"><span id="cb6-1"><a aria-hidden="true" href="#cb6-1" tabindex="-1"></a><span class="ex">$</span> sudo chmod +x driver.run</span>
<span id="cb6-2"><a aria-hidden="true" href="#cb6-2" 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 controls="" src="/static/media/ksp2.webm"><a href="/static/media/ksp2.webm">Video</a></video></p>
<p>Looking good, Jeb!</p>
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