Hi all! I’ve checked out a couple of other threads for this but they are quite old, so I’m making my own, I was gonna just accept it and keep using X11, but also X11 is laggy as hell, and I occassionally see people use nvidia and wayland and not experience this, and it’s also not for every applicat…

thanks!!! Will switch to that and update!!!

preliminary update: Got this error: dracut[I]: *** Creating image file ‘/efi/c793c30db9fb4fa89f176759db9ec21a/6.12.40-1-lts/initrd-fallback.tmp’ *** cp: error writing ‘/efi/c793c30db9fb4fa89f176759db9ec21a/6.12.40-1-lts/initrd-fallback.tmp’: No space left on device dracut[F]: Creation of /efi/c79…

I’m using nvidia-open-dkmsfor my NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

I was under the impression that the nvidia-dkms was for cards up to 3000 (3050 etc) I thought the 4000 series was the next architecture up, but as you stated, they are Lovelace, I thought they were Turing

I installed my driver with nvidia-inst. [image] Nvidia-inst news Announcements and news Here’s the news stand for the nvidia-inst app. nvidia-inst is a driver installer for Nvidia GPUs, and it installs packages only from the Arch repos. If you need other Nvi…

Holy shit this may have fixed the issue? It didn’t fail creating any of the kernels. I’ll still wait for my backup to complete, which should be soon, just in case, but I think this will be fine!

The whole versioning confuses me because according to this , the RTX 20s are Turing, which I think would be older than mine??? I’m just confused about this as a whole I’ve used nvidia-inst -o to switch, I just have no idea which version it installed or how to check. Is there a command for it? The f…

[image] banaarceus: I just have no idea which version it installed or how to check. Is there a command for it? You can see what drivers are installed by running pacman -Qs nvidia

thanks! It’s nvidia-open-dkms, so I guess that switching drivers didn’t help. I just don’t get why some applications do not do the flicker, Firefox and its forks all don’t do it…

Flickering on Nvidia using Wayland in fullscreen applications

Desktop Environments Plasma

UncleSpellbinder July 31, 2025, 12:57pm 12

I installed my driver with nvidia-inst.