Installing NVIDIA drivers can be a kaleidoscope of nightmares for new Debian users. It's a choose your own adventure game riddled with pixelated pitfalls and binary baddies. Fear not, brave adventurers, for with courage and cunning, you'll emerge victorious, sometimes.
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when installing NVIDIA drivers with RT kernel on KDE (debian), I encountered a problem: after blaklisting nouveau drivers and rebooting, the system would not boot (due to lack of drivers).
To complete the installation I had to log in to tty (ctrl+alt+F1) and then run:
'''
cd Downloads # (default place to download drivers)
sudo IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 bash NVIDIA.run
'''
Alternatively, after adding drivers to the blacklist, reboot to multi-user runlevel. This will disable the GUI user after reboot:
```
systemctl set-default multi-user.target
systemctl reboot
```
after reboot:
```
sudo IGNORE_PREEMPT_RT_PRESENCE=1 bash .run
```
After drier installation enable the system to boot into GUI:
```
systemctl set-default graphical.target
systemctl reboot
```
666!!!
Correct, you need to install the new drivers after removing the old ones.
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