@Kresimir As you suggested in Missing Desktop Effects I input both " pacman -Qs dkms" and “dkms status” and received the below, so it looks like I will need to switch drivers if I want to be on the dkms driver. So yes I will need some help with this. Thanks
[alienprober@TheMothership ~]$ pacman -Qs dkms
local/dkms 2.8.3-1
Dynamic Kernel Modules System
local/nvidia-installer-dkms 3.3.7-1
Script to setup nvidia drivers (dkms version) in EndeavourOS
[alienprober@TheMothership ~]$ dkms status
[alienprober@TheMothership ~]$
If the output says that you graphics card is supported by the installer, you can do a test run
nvidia-installer-dkms -t
If there are no errors, you can install for real:
sudo nvidia-installer-dkms
And then just reboot. Hopefully your machine will boot after this
(it might be a good idea to make a timeshift snapshot before doing any of this, just in case)
If your graphics card is not supported by the installer, you can still install the dkms drivers manually from the AUR. Let me know if this is the case.
[alienprober@TheMothership ~]$ nvidia-installer-check
Your graphics card (id: 2187) is supported by the nvidia-dkms driver.
To install a driver for this card, you can use nvidia-installer-dkms.
[alienprober@TheMothership ~]$ nvidia-installer-dkms -t
2020-09-10 04:45:36 [INFO]: EndeavourOS Nvidia Installer v3.3.7
2020-09-10 04:45:36 [INFO]: All logs will be stored in /tmp/nvidia-installer.log
2020-09-10 04:45:36 [INFO]: Running the installer in testing mode...
2020-09-10 04:45:36 [INFO]: Updating Nvidia graphics cards database...
2020-09-10 04:45:36 [INFO]: nvidia-installer-update-db
2020-09-10 04:45:36 [ERROR]: Couldn't find a driver suitable for your graphics card.
2020-09-10 04:45:36 [ERROR]: If you have an older nvidia card, you may use the --force option to install nvidia-dkms and follow further instructions.
I don’t get the second output cause under both Manjaro and Garuda I was using the dkms driver. Also as you can see looks like I already have nvidia-install-dkms installed.
Yea if I remember when I did dkms status before Konsole just returned a command prompt and nothing about the driver, so looks like the dkms driver is in and looking good. Thank you and everyone else, greatly appreciated.
Finally, this works for your linux kernel, but I suggest reinstalling linux-lts, linux-zen and linux-hardened (if you are using them) as well as the appropriate headers packages, as they do not seem to have the dkms module installed:
O.K. will do another snapshot, run that, reboot. Then the fun part copying the EOS partitions from the EVO 850 to the M.2, and reset Timeshift after I’m satisfied the OS transfer is stable and solid.
