Okay so im going step by step and ill edit this post each time
- Gamemode, installed, rebooted and its fine
- protonup-qt is fine
- Im not guna bother with mangohud, never really used it
I have hardware acceleration also enabled. It’s mostly provided by the nvidia-utils package but some packages to install and set up to verify it’s working. You also have to set a couple environmental variables.
As an example:
[ricklinux@asus-tuff ~]$ vainfo
Trying display: wayland
vainfo: VA-API version: 1.21 (libva 2.22.0)
vainfo: Driver version: VA-API NVDEC driver [direct backend]
vainfo: Supported profile and entrypoints
VAProfileMPEG2Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileMPEG2Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Simple : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVC1Advanced : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264Main : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264High : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileH264ConstrainedBaseline: VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileVP9Profile0 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain10 : VAEntrypointVLD
VAProfileHEVCMain12 : VAEntrypointVLD
[ricklinux@asus-tuff ~]$ vdpauinfo
display: :0 screen: 0
API version: 1
Information string: NVIDIA VDPAU Driver Shared Library 555.58 Tue Jun 18 20:22:00 UTC 2024
Video surface:
name width height types
-------------------------------------------
420 8192 8192 NV12 YV12
422 8192 8192 UYVY YUYV
444 8192 8192 NV24 YV24
420_16 8192 8192 P010 P016
422_16 8192 8192 UYVY YUYV
444_16 8192 8192 Y_U_V_444_16
Decoder capabilities:
name level macbs width height
----------------------------------------------------
MPEG1 0 65536 4096 4096
MPEG2_SIMPLE 3 65536 4096 4096
MPEG2_MAIN 3 65536 4096 4096
H264_BASELINE 51 65536 4096 4096
H264_MAIN 51 65536 4096 4096
H264_HIGH 51 65536 4096 4096
VC1_SIMPLE 1 8190 2048 2048
VC1_MAIN 2 8190 2048 2048
VC1_ADVANCED 4 8190 2048 2048
MPEG4_PART2_SP 3 8192 2048 2048
MPEG4_PART2_ASP 5 8192 2048 2048
DIVX4_QMOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX4_MOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX4_HOME_THEATER 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX4_HD_1080P 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX5_QMOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX5_MOBILE 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX5_HOME_THEATER 0 8192 2048 2048
DIVX5_HD_1080P 0 8192 2048 2048
H264_CONSTRAINED_BASELINE 51 65536 4096 4096
H264_EXTENDED 51 65536 4096 4096
H264_PROGRESSIVE_HIGH 51 65536 4096 4096
H264_CONSTRAINED_HIGH 51 65536 4096 4096
H264_HIGH_444_PREDICTIVE 51 65536 4096 4096
VP9_PROFILE_0 1 262144 8192 8192
VP9_PROFILE_1 --- not supported ---
VP9_PROFILE_2 --- not supported ---
VP9_PROFILE_3 --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN 153 262144 8192 8192
HEVC_MAIN_10 153 262144 8192 8192
HEVC_MAIN_STILL --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_12 153 262144 8192 8192
HEVC_MAIN_444 --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_444_10 --- not supported ---
HEVC_MAIN_444_12 --- not supported ---
AV1_MAIN --- not supported ---
AV1_HIGH --- not supported ---
AV1_PROFESSIONAL --- not supported ---
Output surface:
name width height nat types
----------------------------------------------------
B8G8R8A8 32768 32768 y Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 A4I4 I4A4 A8I8 I8A8
R10G10B10A2 32768 32768 y Y8U8V8A8 V8U8Y8A8 A4I4 I4A4 A8I8 I8A8
Bitmap surface:
name width height
------------------------------
B8G8R8A8 32768 32768
R8G8B8A8 32768 32768
R10G10B10A2 32768 32768
B10G10R10A2 32768 32768
A8 32768 32768
Video mixer:
feature name sup
------------------------------------
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL y
DEINTERLACE_TEMPORAL_SPATIAL y
INVERSE_TELECINE y
NOISE_REDUCTION y
SHARPNESS y
LUMA_KEY y
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L1 y
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L2 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L3 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L4 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L5 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L6 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L7 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L8 -
HIGH QUALITY SCALING - L9 -
parameter name sup min max
-----------------------------------------------------
VIDEO_SURFACE_WIDTH y 1 8192
VIDEO_SURFACE_HEIGHT y 1 8192
CHROMA_TYPE y
LAYERS y 0 4
attribute name sup min max
-----------------------------------------------------
BACKGROUND_COLOR y
CSC_MATRIX y
NOISE_REDUCTION_LEVEL y 0.00 1.00
SHARPNESS_LEVEL y -1.00 1.00
LUMA_KEY_MIN_LUMA y
LUMA_KEY_MAX_LUMA y
interesting, i dont have either of those commands available
Yes, as i say you have to install a few packages and set a few environmental variables. If interested i could walk you through it although i don’t think it’s needed for gaming. Mostly i thinking video streaming stuff.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Hardware_video_acceleration
You can read through this but the drift of it is you need to install.
libva-nvidia-driver
libva-utils
vpauinfo
Then add the following to /etc/environment
LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME=nvidia
VDPAU_DRIVER=nvidia
Then reboot and you should be able to run the commands to verify hardware acceleration.
vainfo
vdpauinfo
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Ooo thanks, ill have a read through that now
Okay so a quick one, booted in this morning and ran a sudo pacman -Syu
[luke@luke-ms7c91 Games]$ sudo pacman -Syu
:: Synchronising package databases...
endeavouros is up to date
core is up to date
extra 7.9 MiB 36.4 MiB/s 00:00 [------------------------------------] 100%
multilib is up to date
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Package (3) Old Version New Version Net Change Download Size
extra/dav1d 1.4.2-1 1.4.3-1 0.00 MiB 0.62 MiB
extra/libavif 1.0.4-3 1.0.4-4 0.02 MiB 0.16 MiB
extra/nvidia-utils 555.58-1 555.58-2 0.00 MiB 220.08 MiB
Total Download Size: 220.86 MiB
Total Installed Size: 618.64 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0.02 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
I noticed this came through, im a bit aprehensive as maybe this was the cause of my problems? The -2 version of the driver
This did not work at all…
Just curious, can you show the contents of file:
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
[luke@luke-ms7c91 Movies]$ cat /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist
################################################################################
################# Arch Linux mirrorlist generated by Reflector #################
################################################################################
# With: reflector --verbose -c GB --protocol https --protocol http --sort rate --latest 20 --download-timeout 10 --threads 10
# When: 2024-06-29 21:50:12 UTC
# From: https://archlinux.org/mirrors/status/json/
# Retrieved: 2024-06-29 21:45:36 UTC
# Last Check: 2024-06-29 21:24:27 UTC
## United Kingdom
Server = https://repo.slithery.uk/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = http://mirror.netweaver.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = http://archlinux.uk.mirror.allworldit.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = http://mirrors.gethosted.online/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = https://lon.mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = https://mirror.cov.ukservers.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = https://archlinux.uk.mirror.allworldit.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = http://mirrors.manchester.m247.com/arch-linux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = http://mirror.cov.ukservers.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = https://mirrors.gethosted.online/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = http://lon.mirror.rackspace.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = http://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = http://mirrors.melbourne.co.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = https://mirrors.melbourne.co.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = https://mirror.vinehost.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = http://mirror.vinehost.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.archlinux.org/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = https://mirror.st2projects.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
## United Kingdom
Server = https://mirror.bytemark.co.uk/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Thanks.
Mirrors can be a bit troublesome to set right. I just tested GB mirrors and it seems mirror
Server = https://archlinux.uk.mirror.allworldit.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
is updated very well compared to other GB mirrors. But note, this may change over time, so you might want to experiment it at times.
So you could manually add the Server line above as the first mirror in your
/etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file and then run command
sudo pacman -Syyu
and test if it helps with getting updates sooner than before.
Okay will add that to the top, im very apprehensive about running this update, but will give it a go
Okoay it updated and im rebooted in, butthole was clenched 
but seems its all good
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Yes i updated and got nvidia-dkms and nvidia-utils version 555.58-2.
Its a happy day when i no longer see any black screens
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Could you summarise what you did? I’d like to get the latest drivers without the black screen too while still having Steam installed.
Well i did a fresh os install.
then slowly took it from there with updates first and then rebooted
i also made sure to install the lib32 drivers as instructed above before installing steam.
that was about it tbh, installed gamemode as well. I restarted after every step for sanity checks and to check nothing was broken
What do you mean by install lib32 drivers as instructed? Sorry, I can’t read the discussion very well. There’s gotta be a way to adapt this for me with Steam installed without explicitly installing lib32.
Okay ill list out the steps i did
- Wiped the system and reinstalled Endeavour OS
- Installed any updates using pacman and rebooted
- Installed lib32-nvidia-utils doing
sudo pacman -S lib32-nvidia-utilsand then rebooted - Installed steam with
sudo pacman -S steamand then rebooted - Ran
inxi -Gafor sanity checks to make sure i was on the new drivers - Installed gamemode and then rebooted
- Installed protonup-qt and then rebotoed
Now i dont get any form of black screen
Huh… if only there was some way to completely revert the Steam installation because I’m insanely stumped.