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Rolling back nvidia driver to older version? (Debian 12) (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 9 months ago by Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[–] bizdelnick@lemmy.ml -1 points 9 months 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.