Currently installer seems to fail to install Nvidia Drivers at all for most users.
In addition there seems to be a BUG related between Mesa and Nouveau (open Source in-Kernel Nvidia driver) what will be used in case you do not install Nvidia drivers provided by Nvidia.
This issue leads to a black screen after fresh installation with TTY not working too.
We are working on a solution and will release a fixed ISO as soon as possible.
For the time until then..
Are there the following workarounds:
before an installation in the environment (before the installer is started):
Use the user_pkgfile implementation to manually add the necessary Nvidia packages to the installation:
If you’ve already installed, and you’re sitting in front of a black screen, full of questions and frustration, don’t despair, there’s always a way with a little extra endeavour:
(This is A: for systemd-bootloader and B: for Grub Bootloader)
A: [systemd-boot]
press e (for edit) on the bootmenu followed by end press space insert 1 and hit enter to boot in rescue mode.. give root password there (in case you are wired connected) install nvidia drivers:
systemctl start NetworkManager —> to enable wired internet connection, in case you are using wirelss, try nmtui after this to connect to wifi.
a bit older (still not legacy) GPUs: pacman -Syu nvidia nvidia-utils
after the reboot you should be fine.
Keep in mind in case of having choosen LTS kernel on install add the needed lts nvidia package too or take dkms version what will build modules for all installed kernels: pacman -Syu nvidia-open nvidia-open-lts nvidia-utils pacman -Syu nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-utils
Use the arrow keys to find the line that looks like this: linux /vmlinuz=linux root=UUID=...... rw quiet resume=.... (… = long snake of numbers)
put systemd.unit=multi-user.target right after rw like this: rw systemd.unit=multi-user.target resume=....
I recommend removing quiet to get more informational output on boot (leave the rest untouched!!!)
Press Ctrl+X to boot with this parameter.
give root password there (in case you are wired connected) install nvidia drivers:
nmtui to connect to wifi
pacman -Syu nvidia-open nvidia-utils
(on latest cards only see here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA)
a bit older (still not legacy) GPUs: pacman -Syu nvidia nvidia-utils
after the reboot you should be fine.
Keep in mind in case of having choosen LTS kernel on install add the needed lts nvidia package too or take dkms version what will build modules for all installed kernels: pacman -Syu nvidia-open nvidia-open-lts nvidia-utils pacman -Syu nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-utils
I hope instructions will work out nicely, post in case it works and indeed if not, we will be there to help.
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[2.6.2025]
From some more tests i do today, i can see that if you install vulkan-nouveau you can also boot fine with Nvidia GPU without installing nvidia drivers..
as i mentioned, only in case the mesa BUG is affecting you, from my own Hardware and like 5 others i helped over the last days, on Nvidia drivers (not nouveau) it should work okay with latest Mesa.
Will go to read the mesa Thread now if i can get along ..
I found that I just edit the grub boot menu at boot by selecting e and changing “nvidia_drm.modeset=1 quiet splash” with “nomodeset quiet splash” and then boot. Install the nvidia drivers and all is well. Thanks to u/Low-Mistake-515
Maybe this is working now but that was on a new install about 4 days ago using the nvidia option in the installer.
Saw it plopping up as “Important News” in my Welcome App today (yes, I still have that autostart, just in case). Although I try to avoid NVIDIA if possible, I much appreciate the work you’re putting into making things easy for EOS users!
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NVIDIA are a freakin’ clever bunch. Having built so much raw computing power into their chipsets, we’re now almost forced to use them again if we want to run LLMs and such. Even if we don’t use them for graphics. A market Intel and AMD totally missed.
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