pacman -S nvidia-dkmsHollywood, here I come!
Partial updates are not supported on Arch. You need to use
-Syu.I think you’re misunderstanding what a partial upgrade is.
A partial upgrade is where you update the database without then upgrading every package (calling
pacman -Sywith theuswitch).pacman -S, therefore, is not a partial upgrade, as the database is not updated with theyswitch.See System maintenance#Partial upgrades are unsupported for more info.
I thought dkms was recommended only for alternative kernels, and that nvidia or nvidia-open is what’s recommended generally.
Recommended, yes, but I’ve had issues with the pre-compiled modules before, so I switched to
nvidia-dkmsto make sure the binaries are always freshly baked.
Yeah, obviously, who wouldn’t know that
Can I ask for help here?
I’ve got 3 displays, right…a 1080p75 and a 4k60/444 on my Nvidia GeForce 1660, and a 1080p60 on my onboard graphics (AMD).
Works reasonably under X11, but can’t get 4k60 (only 30) in Wayland. And not really sure I’ve got 4:4:4, either. Seems prime-select keeps forgetting my setting in Wayland, too.
I’m using tumbleweed with plasma as my desktop.
Run this command:
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /Probably shouldn’t be asking for tech support in the Linux meme community.
Don’t do this.
How about you
sudo apt-get better jokes?yay -S never
I think it’s because of the mismatched refresh rates. I think NVIDIA is working on a fix. But that may be outdated info i’m remembering. NVIDIA has said they are committed to fixing the remaining issues with Wayland support.
Not the right place to ask. Try the official forums of your distro, or one of the many Linux communities on Lemmy.
4k60/444
Is that HDR? I can tell you right now that HDR is still experimental on all Wayland compositors (Plasma seems to be the farthest along, but still not reliable), and will never be implemented in X11.
Not quite HDR, similar but different.
4:4:4 refers to chroma subsampling. Essentially how much bandwidth is available for chroma and luma. 4:4:4 allows for an 4x2 array of pixels to each be unique colors, which isn’t possible with 4:2:2 or 4:2:0.
It’s a feature you really want when using a 4k TV for a monitor (as I am) because without it, text can be very fuzzy and difficult to read. Especially certain color combinations (i.e. red-on-black, as Konsole will do when there’s an error).
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How can it be a skill issue if you did nothing?
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All these Nvidia driver memes are why I haven’t fully switched to Linux with my main rig (which is used solely for gaming). Servers, fuck yeah boy, Linux all the way. Stable as fuck and super lightweight. But I don’t need those to render things in 3D at 60+ FPS.
I also never got Wi-Fi drivers working until Ubuntu first came out and I tried it.
That kinda shit makes it feel like a catch-22: some things don’t work on Linux because nobody is developing that thing for Linux, and they aren’t developing that thing for Linux because people who use that thing don’t use Linux (because it’s not there). Partially why I learned to code; sometimes I want something that doesn’t exist so I must create it. Unfortunately, I am not learned enough to make drivers/wrappers. 😔
Haven’t had an Nvidia issue for years
It was slower to adopt Wayland but that’s resolved
Longevity of AMD is better but that same issue exists on other Operating Systems
The memes are extremely outdated at this point. I’ve been rocking Linux with a 3070 for the last year and a half and have only seen minor issues and major improvements. Not to say it’s perfect, but my issues have been more from me rocking arch Linux and breaking my system than Nvidia issues
Meanwhile in reality installing Nvidia drivers is literally just a checkbox in a Drivers menu in system settings. Unless you are using Arch or something.
I recently finally moved to Linux (Mint). I have Nvidia GPU and yes, all I had to do was check the box and the drivers installed automatically. No problems so far.
I still have Windows 11 installed though (dualboot). I know there’s some compatibility problems with Linux that’s affecting me, but Linux is my main OS.
I’ve had wireless working in linux since 2002. 802.11b was complex but quick. I was still running slackware back then.
i just upgraded to an AMD card yesterday because of the Nvidia driver nightmare lol
As a Linux noob I feel that lol… Currently on my Mint Laptop with an nvidia gpu (RTX 4060 Mobile version) and while most stuff worked out of the box, am running into several small annoyances:
- steam doesn’t launch (steamwebhelper doesn’t respond).
- Sleep mode just completely crashes the system once in a while.
- The GPU runs pretty warm, even if I don’t use anything / have the laptop closed.
- Tried to tinker around with the ‘nvidia-xconfig’ CLI in order to use a custom fan curve and it created a config file which completely stopped my desktop environment from even launching at startup… Somehow managed to recover the system through terminal shenanigans
To anyone thinking about switching to linux, do yourself a favor and do it on AMD hardware.
sudo apt install nvidia-driverCongratulations, firefox is now crashing
I still cant sleep my computer with a 2070 Ti. I just shut it down and start it up every time, which is pretty shitty.
That happens with my windows machine so eh. See if your distro has a hibernate option.
Not trying to criticize you or anything, just genuinely asking - why is it so much worse to turn your computer off when you’re done with it than putting it to sleep?
Because it takes 15 minutes to boot.
Send help.
If your computer takes 15 minutes to boot…something is wrong. Even when I ran Windows on a non-SSD it didn’t take that long.
Oh I’m aware, I just have no idea what the hell it is and I’m putting off a reinstall.
You can change your bootloader output to verbose and it should give you an idea. Probably a startup process hanging for it’s maximum timeout or something.
I installed a Nvidia 3060 earlier this year. Ran the command, rebooted the system, everything works fine.
I installed it on silverblue earlier this year and it was almost fine except firefox would randomly crash all the time, which was frustrating. Also gaming is a whole mess with nvidia. I miss my AMD card
I’ve never had trouble installing them. Getting them to work after an update is another story.
Lolz
it’s the same as installing programs on your pc, the biggest issue would be that you have to use a cli because I dont know if you can install Nvidia drivers via gui
I remember around 15 years ago I was excited to get my first computer with a dedicated graphics card, a laptop with Nvidia Optimus. It was also around the time I was just beginning to get into Linux. I found an Ubuntu forum post with detailed instructions on installing Ubuntu and setting it up properly on that exact laptop, so I tried to follow that.
It didn’t help that I was unfamiliar with using the terminal at the time. But even so, this was before tools like Bumblebee were in a usable state (is Bumblebee still the preferred way to use Optimus?). I remember getting to the part about graphics switching and seeing some messy confusing hack for it. I don’t remember the specifics, but I think it involved importing a script and using diff to patch something. And I think all it did was just disable the very gpu I was looking forward to trying out.
I jumped back and forth between distros and Windows 7 a lot at that time. But it was such a shitty experience all because of Nvidia that I have never purchased any of their products since then. I’ve owned a lot of computers in that time, and I’m just one customer lost. I hope Nvidia looks at AMD sales and wonders how many of them are users that Nvidia lost because things like that.
Honestly, I’ve never had this problem. Two GPUs, two clicks in the gui driver manager.
Honestly, all it took these days is reading the news.
i have linux mint LMDE. there i just searched nvidia, found the driver and installed it. wheres the problem?
I have a better one. Installing ATI drivers mid 2000s.
Adjusting for overscan in the 2000s…
Works fine for me? (opensuse tumbleweed)
Didn’t take much effort, hybrid mode got implemented automatically and then I just manually added a widget for quick switching between only integrated graphics, hybrid mode and only nvidia (basically never using that one, just either integrated or hybrid)
That’s nice! I’m glad it glad it worked so well for you. That’s the thing about configuration, sometimes it works without much effort!
I wish everyone shared your experience, but I guess it’s a YMMV kind of thing, right?
I’m generally very happy with opensuse tumbleweed, so far the best desktop distros I’ve tried. Very polished and user friendly.
LOL isn’t that the truth. I wanted my desktop to not bother chugging watts through my 3090 and generating excess heat when barely KDE Plasma and a browser is running, but trying to set up GPU offload just left me with a blank terminal screen.
Thank God for the geniuses who implemented Snapper rollbacks in OpenSUSE! Otherwise, the Nvidia drivers in the repos work fine and I’m scared to touch them…
Is the power consumption really that much more? I guess there is a significant difference but it might still not cost much.
In a desktop you use the powerful GPU all the time.
In my use case the laptop is always attached to a charger.
