Nvidia GPU users attention please! [June 2025]

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Hello.
I’m going to perform a fresh installation of EndeavourOS with a latest-generation NVidia graphics card.
How should I ensure this installation goes smoothly?
What changes do I need to make?
Thank you.

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For Fresh install you want to get nvidia-open and nvidia-utils installed at least to get into the Desktop.

nvidia-open
nvidia-utils

added to the user_pkgfile inside liveusers home before starting installer.
details: https://discovery.endeavouros.com/installation/customizing-the-endeavouros-install-process/2022/03/

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It is perfect.
Thank you very much

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Hi guys,

so the problem “only” occurs when using the Nouvea version of the Nvidia drivers with a new installation?

Do I understand that correctly?

I have installed the latest proprietary driver from the green devils for my RTX 3060 and there is no update pending.

Next Graka will be an AMD.

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yes only as long as you do not have nvidia nor nvidia-open or vulkan-nouveau installed and system has Nvidia GPU installed.

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What I did after a fresh install was to edit the grub commandline on first launch and replace nvidia_drm.modeset=1 with nomodeset to be able to boot into the GUI at a low resolution, then run sudo nvidia-inst and reboot - same as with LMDE basically :slight_smile:
After installing the gpu driver, nvidia_drm.modeset=1 will be written into grub (again). I haven’t checked whether it’s present in between first boot and installing the gpu driver tho ¯\(ツ)/¯
Tried it three times (1xKDE, 2xCinnamon), worked three times.
If it matters, I’m on a 4060 running Cinnamon x11
edit; I just saw someone else has already posted the same approach, so consider this more like a confirmation based on self-testing and finding out. yup :slight_smile:

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Hey @joekamprad why not use runlevel 3 .. that is instead of inputting a 1 we use 3 - which enables networking.

( Dont know why I missed this post so long ago. :sweat_smile: )

Also added the following topic for general consumption:

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true ..

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Why did my endeavour os install the New Feature Branch over the Recommended/Certified driver ??? I had installed 570.153.02 last week and today it installed 575.57.08.

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Thank you for this, I was just about to install and luckily I had the thinking to check the forum before doing so. Also thanks for the reminder that I need to change to AMD GPUs already, haha.

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Afaik arch was always using NFB for the Nvidia packages? i think the versioning on nvidia is a bit strange so the now certified has the same version of the before NFB ?

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you are welcome.. we are working on a new solution for nvidia GPU handling for the ISO thats not something we want to break over the knee :wink:

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No, 570 is recommended/certified and 575 is NFB

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Sometimes AMD doesn’t work like a charm.

I know that usually in the Linux world AMD is considered superior to Nvidia, but I on the other hand have had most problems, on my years on Linux, caused by AMD Graphics.

On early days of Ubuntu I had problems with Nvidia, but after that (from my experience) drivers have matured light-years.

I think that one thing we have to accept on while using Linux is the fact that sometimes things don’t work as they should. Although to be frank that’s what happens on Windows also. :enos:

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still valid :wink: i asked one of the maintainer of the package already, arch is using NFB as source, only that the now certified was the NFB before (as far as i understand)

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Will that include older hardware?

I have a Dell Latitude E6510 laptop that has the NVIDIA GT218M [NVS 3100M] built-in (currently runs Mint). The machine is still fine but afaik NVIDIA stopped supporting it :face_vomiting: and I can’t simply throw out the NVIDIA graphics (has no Intel graphics).

$ inxi -Gaz --display
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GT218M [NVS 3100M] vendor: Dell Latitude E6510
    driver: nvidia v: 340.108 alternate: nvidiafb,nouveau pcie: gen: 2
    speed: 5 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a6c class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Ricoh HD Webcam type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-1.4:3
    chip-ID: 05ca:1814 class-ID: 0e02
  Display: server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 driver: X: loaded: nvidia gpu: nvidia
    display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 143 s-size: 341x191mm (13.4x7.5")
    s-diag: 391mm (15.4")
  Monitor-1: DP-3 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 142
    size: 344x194mm (13.5x7.6") diag: 395mm (15.5")
  OpenGL: renderer: NVS 3100M/PCIe/SSE2 v: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 340.108
    direct render: Yes
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NVIDIA from 304.135 to 340.107 thats legacy and these will boot fine on nouveau from kernel in most case.. and yea if you need Nvidia support you need to built from AUR, we do not have the capacity to maintain driver packages in our repo in that level of maintaining legacy NVIDIA modules will need to handle.

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Thanks. Looks like I’ll either have to see how far I get with nouveau, or restrict myself on kernels. The AUR seems to use the same kernel patches I have, but only up to 6.8.

Well, let’s see. It can stay on Mint for a while, just wanted to be sure of a possible update path to EOS.

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there was a repo for nvidia legacy driver packages before but maintainer is gone to linux heaven, no one taking the flag to do the same since. At least not something we could put the right amount of trust in.

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Aren’t those older drivers in the aur.