After you upgrade kernel, in my case linux-image-6.12.31-amd64 to linux-image-6.12.57+deb13-amd64, you need to rebuild nvidia driver. During boot, Debian will show some error loading nvidia module
To check which module fail during boot
# journalctl -b -u systemd-modules-load.service
Dec 10 09:48:02 mylocalpc systemd-modules-load[781]: modprobe: ERROR: Error running install command 'modprobe n>
Dec 10 09:48:02 mylocalpc systemd-modules-load[781]: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_modeset': Invali>
Dec 10 09:48:02 mylocalpc systemd-modules-load[789]: modprobe: FATAL: Module nvidia-current-drm not found in di>
Dec 10 09:48:02 mylocalpc systemd-modules-load[767]: Error running install command 'modprobe nvidia-modeset ; m>
Dec 10 09:48:02 mylocalpc systemd-modules-load[767]: Failed to insert module 'nvidia_drm': Invalid argument
Dec 10 09:48:02 mylocalpc systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/>
Dec 10 09:48:02 mylocalpc systemd[1]: systemd-modules-load.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Dec 10 09:48:02 mylocalpc systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-modules-load.service - Load
To install dkms
root@mylocalpc:~# apt install dkms
dkms is already the newest version (3.2.2-1~deb13u1).
dkms set to manually installed.
Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 0, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 1
To show dkms status
root@mylocalpc:~# dkms status
nvidia-current/550.163.01, 6.12.31-amd64, x86_64: installed
To rebuild nvidia driver, it will build any kernel installed.
root@mylocalpc:~# dkms install nvidia-current/550.163.01
Sign command: /lib/modules/6.12.57+deb13-amd64/build/scripts/sign-file
Signing key: /var/lib/dkms/mok.key
Public certificate (MOK): /var/lib/dkms/mok.pub
Building module(s)................ done.
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/550.163.01/build/nvidia.ko
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/550.163.01/build/nvidia-modeset.ko
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/550.163.01/build/nvidia-drm.ko
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/550.163.01/build/nvidia-uvm.ko
Signing module /var/lib/dkms/nvidia-current/550.163.01/build/nvidia-peermem.ko
Installing /lib/modules/6.12.57+deb13-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current.ko.xz
Installing /lib/modules/6.12.57+deb13-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current-modeset.ko.xz
Installing /lib/modules/6.12.57+deb13-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current-drm.ko.xz
Installing /lib/modules/6.12.57+deb13-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current-uvm.ko.xz
Installing /lib/modules/6.12.57+deb13-amd64/updates/dkms/nvidia-current-peermem.ko.xz
Running depmod.... done.
to check status of nvidia modul
root@mylocalpc:~# dkms status
nvidia-current/550.163.01, 6.12.31-amd64, x86_64: installed
nvidia-current/550.163.01, 6.12.57+deb13-amd64, x86_64: installed
restart your debian.
