Hey Look, it’s me! I am on nobara against my fucking will. I spent all saturday screaming.

I’m going to refer the shit out of this thread in my news battle to get my goddamn debian OS back. DNF is scary and I can’t use signal.

Here’s my notes (WARNING: THESE NOTES LEAD TO FAILURE) :

• get verson info for KDE and NVIDIA drivers https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//non-free-firmware/n/nvidia-graphics-drivers/nvidia-graphics-drivers_550.163.01-2_changelog https://packages.debian.org/trixie/nvidia-driver https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=nvidia&searchon=names&suite=trixie&section=all https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17999695/debian-package-dependencies-installing-specific-version-not-the-latest

added changes to /etc/apt/sources.list https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers?action=show&redirect=NVIDIA#Debian-13_notes

2 - 16 5 - 18 8-17

16 deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie main contrib non-free non-free-firmware 17 deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security contrib non-free main non-free-firmware 18 deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ trixie-updates non-free-firmware non-free contrib main

2 deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie main (contrib) non-free-firmware 5 deb http://deb.debian.org/debian trixie-updates main non-free-firmware (non-free contrib) 8 deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security/ trixie-security (contrib) main non-free-firmware

added git to /etc

ran git config --global --add safe.directory /etc because I was geting thsi eror : fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at ‘/etc’ To add an exception for this directory, call:

installing drivers https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers?action=show&redirect=NVIDIA#Debian-13_notes apt install nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-driver

WARNING: No kernel headers were found, skipping module build.
         To get the headers for the running kernel (6.12.57+deb13-amd64)
         please install the linux-headers-6.12.57+deb13-amd64 package.

ran apt install linux-headers-generic to resolve

I DID ACTUALL RUN THE FOLLOWING

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Post-installation steps for Trixie

Optionally verify the result of the DKMS module compilation:

# dkms status

If you plan to use wayland (which is a default for both the Gnome and KDE Plasma desktops since Debian 12 "Bookworm") make sure to follow the Wayland Modesetting notes below.

    If gnome starts with X11, you may enable wayland support by enabling NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 as mentioned below.

    If you plan to use suspend/hibernate functionality under KDE desktop environment, you may want to add another option to avoid graphics "glitches" after wakeup/restore:
    Warning: skip this step if you have Optimus hybrid graphics

    # echo "options nvidia NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1" >> /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-options.conf

In most cases a restart of the system is recommended to fully load the new driver. For wayland, check again if modeset is properly set, as described above.

_____https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers?action=show&redirect=NVIDIA#Wayland_configuration and this wayland shit too
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