Hi, I got this card and would love to run EOS with it. But few weeks ago, I couldn’t get it to work. I couldn’t even get on the graphical login screen, it hanged. I could open tty2 etc. but couldn’t figure out the driver problem.
I don’t know what extra steps should I take during the live install to get the proper latest drivers? Any help is appreciated
Should I wait 6months to a year xD? Before this card gets better support on linux
Windows feels so ass to use, but games work well.
Try package nvidia-open-dkms. If that doesn’t work, try nvidia-open-beta-dkms (series 575) from the AUR.
Tip: install package nvidia-inst and run this test command
nvidia-inst --test --32
to see what it would install. And if that’s OK, remove option --test.
You may need to arch-chroot to the installed system to run the commands above.
See our wiki pages for arch-chroot details.
@DoHa, drivers 570 and up are working for your card.
The latest publicly available EndeavourOS ISO doesn’t reach the graphical interface with NVIDIA’s RTX 5000 series (Blackwell) graphics cards because it doesn’t detect them properly, or at least that’s what I gather from the errors during the Live ISO boot. It might also be that the driver included in the installer isn’t nvidia-open, which is the only one that works with the Blackwell series. The solution is to boot the Live ISO with the default option (not the NVIDIA one) and install EndeavourOS this way.
Once installed, run:
nvidia-inst -o --32
This will install the nvidia-open drivers (the -o parameter), which are recommended and necessary for the Blackwell series, along with the 32-bit libraries required for gaming and Steam (the --32 parameter).
At least this is how I got my Blackwell GPU working in EndeavourOS, and so far, I haven’t had any issues—unlike Windows drivers, which are plagued with instability.
Thanks guys! The EOS installer had automatically 2x AMD gpu drivers selected since it probs didn’t recognize this GPU (never had to fiddle checking unchecking those packages before, maybe few times when zen kernel used to be a choice in this installer). I unchecked those 2 AMD drivers, and proceeded installing Eos as normal.
This time the screen wasn’t black upon my first login, and I could install drivers via terminal on my desktop.
And I ran the commands from this thread to get proper drivers installed, everything works perfectly 
and plasma with Wayland feels way better on my new pc than windows 10 ever did xD