Rolling back nvidia driver to older version? (Debian 12)

submitted 2024-02-24T16:13:56Z by Smorty [she/her]

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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