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Installing nvidia driver installs a new kernel [SOLVED, LOOK IN THE COMMENTS] (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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When installing the proprietary nvidia driver recommended by the the official debian page for Debian Bookwork, apt seems to want to install a new kernel. I actually did this before (since this is my second time installing debian on here) and this new kernel messes with the display server somehow, disabeling all monitors but one, limiting the resolution, removing all the UI animations and so on. So I don't want to do that again. My current kernel is the Debain 12 default: linux-image-6.1.0-18-amd64. Am I doing something terribly wrong, is the website perhaps outdated, or what is going on here?

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[–] Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

SOLUTION:

This is a problem not with the operating system, but rather the nvidia DKMS. It can easily be fixed by replacing some lines in the apt sources located here: /etc/apt/sources.list. The line update-security has to be replaced by these two:

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free contrib non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian/ bookworm-updates main non-free contrib non-free-firmware

Here is a link to where this solution was found: https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/debian-12-and-nvidia-driver-nvidia-linux-x86-64-470-223-02-run/282473/2

After updating the sources there, simple run sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade. Then it should finally compile the drivers for your kernel, the extra kernel in the grub menu (if it appeared on your machine) should disappear, and your original kernel (in my case 6.1.0-18-amd64) will have the module in it. So your monitors and stuff should work as they did before.