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How to install Nvidia drivers on Debian 11 (Bullseye) guide???

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How to install Nvidia drivers on Debian 11 (Bullseye) guide???

#1 Post by jscoys »

Hello,

I'm trying to install Nvidia drivers for my Geforce 1060 on a Debian 11 (Bullseye), but no success so far...

Some people says you need the CUDA package, others says you need the CUDA Toolkit package (https://developer.nvidia.com/cuda-downl ... eb_network)...

When following the Tutorial from Nvidia itself (https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsD ... _460.91.03) I end up with a compilation error...

Running this command gives me this result:
nvidia-smi
NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

Please does someone has a tutorial somewhere that is really working? A script (sh) maybe?

uname -r
5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64

Thx in advance!

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#2 Post by mm3100 »

Did you check Debian wiki for that subject?
https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers

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#3 Post by sunrat »

The current nvidia-driver package in Bullseye does not support kernel 5.14 yet. Hopefully a newer driver will be ported to backports sometime soon. I'm waiting for it myself. Your best option is to use the default 5.10 kernel until then.
If you are really impatient or desperate you could use sgfxi but that makes it more complicated to install the driver from Debian repo when it does become available, and we can't guarantee it won't damage your system.
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#4 Post by jscoys »

Thank you man, I appreciate. By curiosity how much have you been waiting for this to be available already?

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jscoys wrote: 2021-11-26 20:46 Thank you man, I appreciate. By curiosity how much have you been waiting for this to be available already?
Since 5.14 became available. :|
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#6 Post by @ttila »

My Bullseye is running the kernel 5.15.3 and Nvidia 470.86 drivers. I get some troubles but reinstalling the nvidia-kernel-dkms package compiled modules for the newer kernel (check always that the directory /lib/modules/5.15.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms contains modules).

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@ttila wrote: 2021-11-27 15:38 My Bullseye is running the kernel 5.15.3 and Nvidia 470.86 drivers. I get some troubles but reinstalling the nvidia-kernel-dkms package compiled modules for the newer kernel (check always that the directory /lib/modules/5.15.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms contains modules).
Neither that kernel nor that version of nvidia drivers are available in Bullseye or backports repository. Did you compile them yourself?
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#8 Post by @ttila »

sunrat wrote: 2021-11-27 22:01
@ttila wrote: 2021-11-27 15:38 My Bullseye is running the kernel 5.15.3 and Nvidia 470.86 drivers. I get some troubles but reinstalling the nvidia-kernel-dkms package compiled modules for the newer kernel (check always that the directory /lib/modules/5.15.0-1-amd64/updates/dkms contains modules).
Neither that kernel nor that version of nvidia drivers are available in Bullseye or backports repository. Did you compile them yourself?
Sorry, I'm talking about Debian 12 "Bookworm", "Bullseye" is stuck with the 5.10 kernel and a old nvidia drivers.

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#9 Post by jscoys »

Hey guys thx for your replies, I really appreciate all the information you gave me.

When I do an apt list "*nvidia*" I see just packages with 460 version on it, even with the backport configured in my sources.list. Do you confirm it's the last version available?

My Kernel version is indeed the 5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64.

Question for you:
- Can I downgrade to the 5.10 Kernel version? What is the process? Is it long, dangerous?
- Can I upgrade to bookworm and then get the backported 470 version? What is the procedure to do it?

Or should I wait because both solutions above are kind of dangerous finally?

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jscoys wrote: 2021-12-05 01:49When I do an apt list "*nvidia*" I see just packages with 460 version on it, even with the backport configured in my sources.list. Do you confirm it's the last version available?
Yes.
- Can I downgrade to the 5.10 Kernel version? What is the process? Is it long, dangerous?
It should still be installed unless you manually removed it. Do

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apt list --installed linux-image*
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apt list linux-image-5.10*
to find the exact name and install it. And unless you have the metapackage linux-image-amd64 from backports, the version from stable should automatically depend on the 5.10 kernel and cause the latest 5.10 to be installed. You will need the kernel headers as well.
- Can I upgrade to bookworm and then get the backported 470 version? What is the procedure to do it?
Testing (Bookworm) is not an upgrade, it is a development version which takes more skilled management than stable. It's not a "backported version", testing is where stable backports come from.
Generally, if you have to ask don't use testing.
Or should I wait because both solutions above are kind of dangerous finally?
Yes.
I'm not sure why you are pursuing this. Nvidia 460.xx drivers for GTX1060 should work fine on the 5.10 kernel.
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#11 Post by jscoys »

Hello! Thx again for your help! Well I pursue the installation of Nvidia drivers through this Wiki page: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsD ... _460.91.03, but I'm not succeeded :-( I've got a lot of compilation errors and nothing works. But you're right! I've got the two Kernel version installed:

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linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64/stable,now 5.10.70-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
linux-image-5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64/bullseye-backports,now 5.14.9-2~bpo11+1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
linux-image-amd64/bullseye-backports,now 5.14.9-2~bpo11+1 amd64 [installed]
I guess I should specify the drivers to be installed with the 5.10? How can I do that? With Kernel headers?

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#12 Post by sunrat »

I'd guess the build errors are for the 5.14 kernel but not sure if the build for 5.10 would still proceed but it should. Have you booted the 5.10 kernel to see if nvidia drivers are working?
I'm starting to wonder if bullseye-backports will ever see nvidia driver ≥470, it's been a long time. There may be something in toolchain dependencies which can not be satisfied in Bullseye.
I suggest to boot to 5.10 first, purge linux-image-5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 and linux-image-amd64, then reinstall linux-image-amd64 which should then be the Bullseye version and do

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apt update && apt full-upgrade
This will also pull in the new 5.10 kernel which was just released recently. Then reinstall nvidia-driver package if necessary.
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#13 Post by jscoys »

Hey sunrat thanks!

Sorry, noob question here...

So if I boot into the 5.10 Kernel I should then be able to install the NVidia 460 drivers. Are all my other modules going to work with this Kernel even if I installed everything when I was using the 5.14?

Also could I come back booting and using the 5.14 after installing under the 5.10 or the Nvidia driver won't work?

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I suggest to boot to 5.10 first, purge linux-image-5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 and linux-image-amd64
Ok so you suggest me to get rid of the 5.14?!

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jscoys wrote: 2021-12-20 17:43
I suggest to boot to 5.10 first, purge linux-image-5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 and linux-image-amd64
Ok so you suggest me to get rid of the 5.14?!
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Thx sunrat, just to be sure I'm not destroying my installation, and also I'm pretty new to Linux world, could you confirm those cmd please:
1) Boot with the 5.10 from Grub menu
2) apt-get remove linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64
3) apt-get remove linux-image-amd64
4) dpkg --list | grep 5.10.0-9
5) apt-get remove <each modules appearing on results from 4) command
6-7-9...) Is there something else to do? A command to update grub maybe? What about linux-headers? Should I install them after a reboot or immediatly? Is there something I forgot? Thx again for your help.

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#17 Post by jscoys »

Just to be sure, I was on the assumption that the "linux-image-amd64" is a kind of "pointer" to the latest kernel installed? So I shouldn't remove it right?

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jscoys wrote: 2022-01-02 17:58 Thx sunrat, just to be sure I'm not destroying my installation, and also I'm pretty new to Linux world, could you confirm those cmd please:
1) Boot with the 5.10 from Grub menu
2) apt-get remove linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64
3) apt-get remove linux-image-amd64
4) dpkg --list | grep 5.10.0-9
5) apt-get remove <each modules appearing on results from 4) command
6-7-9...) Is there something else to do? A command to update grub maybe? What about linux-headers? Should I install them after a reboot or immediatly? Is there something I forgot? Thx again for your help.
No, wrong. You need to remove 5.14 and keep 5.10:
1) boot 5.10 from GRUB
Then remove 5.14 kernel and metapackages from backports
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apt purge linux-image-5.14.xx linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-5.14.xxx linux-headers-amd64
(replace the xx with actual version)
And install the stable versions
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apt install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64
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#20 Post by jscoys »

Hello! Thx a lot! I did remove the 5.14 and did a "update-grub2" so it boots automatically with the 5.10!

Now I'm in trouble to get rid completely of the 5.14 because when trying to install the image-amd64 and new headers, it tries to reinstall everything for the 5.14...

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root@server:~# uname -r
5.10.0-9-amd64
root@server:~# apt list --installed linux-image*
Listing... Done
linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64/stable,now 5.10.70-1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
root@server:~# apt list --installed linux-headers*
Listing... Done
root@server:~# apt install linux-image-amd64 linux-headers-amd64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
  linux-compiler-gcc-10-x86 linux-headers-5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 linux-headers-5.14.0-0.bpo.2-common linux-image-5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 linux-kbuild-5.14
Suggested packages:
  linux-doc-5.14 debian-kernel-handbook
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  linux-compiler-gcc-10-x86 linux-headers-5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 linux-headers-5.14.0-0.bpo.2-common linux-headers-amd64 linux-image-5.14.0-0.bpo.2-amd64 linux-image-amd64 linux-kbuild-5.14
0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 73.8 MB/74.2 MB of archives.
After this operation, 436 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Any idea how I indicate to my Debian to install them for the linux-image-5.10.0-9-amd64?!

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