Here is the nvidia-bug-report log file linked.
nvidia-bug-report.log (317.5 KB)
RTX 2050 driver not loading Debian12
The driver can fail to load, typically for only a few reasons,
it should be very simple to install, and run, but because of the unique nuances that arise with everyone’s unique software/hardware the driver can
A) fail to build properly, because of a mismatch between kernel and driver versioning, combined with a distributions packaging scheme.
B) Fail to load properly because the install, or contextual system, the operating system, was misconfigured in some way.
C) and other general reasons I can’t immediately remember off the top of my head, I’m just writing you up a quick-fix response
The three things you want to consider initially, to understand how to fix your problem quickly,
are, what kernel are you using, is it the default that came with debian 12 for example, what driver are you using, is it the standard nvidia-driver from apt install nvidia-driver, or did you use a different method, and what desktop environment, and display server you are using, the default for debian is actually gnome, and idk what the default display server is for debian gnome, whether or not it’s x11, or wayland.
Those three key pieces of information, are necessary to understand what could have gone wrong, and what to do next about the situation.
Basically you want to reinstall the nvidia driver, and you can either go the debian route, and use apt install nvidia-driver, after purging your old driver, or you can use the latest nvidia driver, and libraries from nvidia, which actually in my experience integrate with your system well.
this is the link to the latest nvidia driver, which is actually a really nice program that will do everything you need, automatically, related to the nvidia driver, if you just keep running it repeatedly.
It will automatically uninstall, your old bad install of nvidia, and then after rebooting, then running it again, it will install itself properly.
The way I install it, is to edit the grub command line at bootup, to get to a terminal, instead of the graphics environment.
You do that by highlighting the kernel you want to boot up with, at the grub menu, when you reboot your computer, and pressing the e key, in order to edit it’s command line, and then adding to the end of the line after where it says
/vmlinuz root=UUID=fa423d0a-6f35-4358-jr11-e2f3489k9fub ro
the number 3
so it looks like this…
/vmlinuz root=UUID=fb483d0a-6f34-4358-b211-e2f3389c9ffb ro 3
then press f10 to boot, and you will boot into a command line, where you can run the nvidia run file repeatedly to solve all your problems, by simply following it’s instructions…
(you gotta type in the location of the file,
and run it as root with sh like this)
sudo sh ~/Downloads/NVIDIA.run
You have to run it, to uninstall nvidia, then reboot, edit the grub command line again, to get to a terminal., then run it again, to install nvidia, and just keep following it’s instructions, and you’ll be good to go…
So just to reiterate there’s the debian way of doing things, which has instructions on it’s forum, and docs, and there’s the general way of doing things, which I just outlined for you.
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Thank you…
I was able to get it working after installing the latest driver manually.
I do not know what was the problem with the apt install, but I think it might be that I updated from the default kernel to a newer one, or maybe I just did not configure the install correctly.
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