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Nvidia driver on Debian 10

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Ok, throwing up the bat signal.

I will upgrade Debian to 12 within the next month or so...but before I 
do, want to clean up my current system.

I have to kernels:

4.19.0-25 and 4.19.0-24.

The latter will boot fine, the former (newer kernel) will not. it just 
goes to a blinking cursor, indefinitely (I guess, didn't wait for infinity).

I double checked the space on the boot partition, but it's fine, with 
25% space still left.

when i type:

nvidia-smi

from the CLI, I get...

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|NVIDIA-SMI 418.226.00   Driver Version: 418.226.00   CUDA Version: 10.1 
     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
|GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. 
ECC |
|Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util 
  Compute M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|  0  GeForce GT 1030     On   | 00000000:1F:00.0  On |                 
  N/A |
|N/A   46C    P8    N/A /  19W |    340MiB /  2000MiB |     39%     
  Default |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Processes:                                                       GPU 
Memory |
| GPU       PID   Type   Process name                             Usage 
      |
|=============================================================================|
|   0      2107      G   /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg                           
259MiB |
|   0      4220      G   cinnamon                                     
  57MiB |
|   0     11718      G   nvidia-settings                               
  0MiB |
|   0     11745      G   nvidia-settings                               
  0MiB |
Key information:
I am aware that there are two different installation paths for the 
nvidia driver, either through the repos or from nvidia downloads.
I think I did the later, but I have misplaced, lost, and cannot download 
the driver listed above to uninstall it. Apparently, you need the nvidia
installer to uninstall the driver.
I tried from CLI:
apt nvidia purge
but that did not work.
As a last gasp of desperation, I tried to ignore the warning from the 
new current nvidia downloaded installer, and just install anyway, but it 
also
does not install the driver.
Reading logs, it says I have another version driver. When I ran that 
file with the -uninstall flag, it instead said I did not have
an nvidia driver installed.
In summation:
1. I apparently have an nvidia driver installed (proof with nvidia-smi)
2. How it was installed - I am guessing from download file not repos, 
but not 100% sure.
3. I know linux and nvidia go together like oil and water...
Since not really using this for gaming or anything more than using two 
monitors, I might just shelf it and delete the latest kernel and set
the older kernel as the default booting kernel--for now, and setup my 
server properly in the future.
Anyone offer up a silver bullet solution that would be nice =) 
Otherwise, just gonna shelf it for now.

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Nvidia driver on Debian 10 Thomas Anderson <thomas.anderson@little-beak.com> - 2024-01-03 11:50 +0100
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