Is there a good way to roll back the nvidia driver to an older version? I need 470 for my vr headset, as newer versions seem to disable video output to the headset. I have tried some logical stuff like sudo apt remove --purge nvidia-driver and also some more radical stuff like sudo apt remove --purge “^nvidia-*” but that somehow left all my drivers intact, and I am still on the newest version 525.147.05. Does someone know on how step back?

    • Smorty [she/her]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      I actually got it to work. I ran these commands: sudo apt remove --purge nvidia sudo reboot #(Reboots the system) sudo apt install nvidia-tesla-470-driver sudo reboot #(Reboots the system)

      And BAM! I got the right driver for the job! Version 470 obtained!

  • EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    It looks like Debian 12 only provides 525, 390 and a legacy 340 driver, based on the wiki. As @people_are_cute@lemmy.sdf.org mentioned, Debian 11 has a 470 driver, but that would be a different set of repositories that would probably not work great for you on Debian 12.

    The actual latest Nvidia driver is 550 as of a few days ago, so maybe you could try a manual install of either the latest or 470? I’m not sure if anything like downgrade or frogging-family\nvidia-all exists for Debian, I *sigh* use Arch Linuxbtw.

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
    12·
    1 year ago

    You cannot install older nvidia driver on a new OS because it only works with old versions of kernel and X.org. All driver versions that are compatible to Debian release are provided in its non-free repo, so if there’s no nvidia 470, it is incompatible with Debian 12.