Hello, I’m new to Linux and during the set up process I have been running into problems with presumably my nvidia drivers.
After installing endeavouros and updating the system I noticed the occurrence of color banding on both screens which didn’t appear during booting the installation OS from the USB stick.
Also I’m using a TV as a monitor over HDMI which can only be set to 30 Hz although it supports 60Hz. It can’t be a hardware issue as the TV runs on 60Hz on Windows 10 on the same PC.
I manually updated nvidia, nvidia-utils and lib32-nvidia-utils which didn’t make a difference.
I tried replacing nvidia with nvidia-dkms which didn’t help either.
As the OS from the stick didn’t have color banding I wanted to downgrade the nvidia drivers with
$ sudo downgrade nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils
to version 560.35.03 which didn’t work due to
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-xcb.so exists in filesystem (owned by egl-x11)
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-xcb.so.1 exists in filesystem (owned by egl-x11)
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-xlib.so exists in filesystem (owned by egl-x11)
nvidia-utils: /usr/lib/libnvidia-egl-xlib.so.1 exists in filesystem (owned by egl-x11)
nvidia-utils: /usr/share/egl/egl_external_platform.d/20_nvidia_xcb.json exists in filesystem (owned by egl-x11)
nvidia-utils: /usr/share/egl/egl_external_platform.d/20_nvidia_xlib.json exists in filesystem (owned by egl-x11)
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
I manually removed egl-x11 to downgrade and reinstalled it afterwards but that just broke the driver and I had to reinstall the current ones.
Now I’m running out of options and don’t know how to proceed to find a solution.
cpu:
Intel(R) Core™ i7-6700K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 4300 MHz
monitor:
SAMSUNG UE55JU6450U
SAMSUNG C49HG9x
graphics card:
nVidia GP104 [GeForce GTX 1070]