Nvidia GPU users attention please! [June 2025]

All I know, is that my EOS VM worked fine for about 4 years. A few weeks ago, I did a normal yay -Syu. All seemed fine until the next time I tried to use the VM. It booted, but left me with a blank screen with a blinking cursor. The VM settings are the same as the day I installed EOS.

I have no interest in the GPU. I just want my EOS VM to work as it used to. The “blank screen with blinking cursor” symptom led me to this thread. Sorry if it is unrelated. Yes, I’m frustrated, but I’m also thankful for the efforts to help me.

Thanks, please see my response to manuel. I didn’t make any changes to the VM. Thanks for the reply.

Hello,

I’m returning to Linux after a long time away, so I’m a bit rusty. I love EndeavourOS so much. Thanks so much for your work, really!

I apologize if this question has been asked before. I was wondering if for an RTX 3080, nvidia-open and nvidia-utils are sufficient for installation, or if it’s advisable to use the full command:

sudo pacman -S nvidia-open nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-settings egl-wayland vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader vulkan-tools

Currently, I’m on KDE Plasma (Wayland), and it seems quite smooth. However, I sometimes notice a slight loss of fluidity (minor) when, for example, I minimize a window.

Thank you so much!

Have a nice day!

should be fine with that for any usage of the GPU only cuda is missing :wink: (joke)

Thanks for the super fast reply, and thanks again for the immense work!

Hello All,
I built a MA4 Ryzen 7 5800X 3D based PC for Linux. I put a RTX 4070 Ti GPU in it and I am able to install EndeavorOS With the Budgie DE. After install and reboot I do get a desktop. However when I check the GPU driver in use it shows the below. I then go to install either Nvidia & Nvidia Utils or Nvidia-open & Nvidia Utils and after install and a reboot I get a black screen. If I try to stay with the drivers after install and go to install Steam and choose either choice 2 or 6 and reboot it also breaks the video and I get a black screen after reboot. Any help with this would be greatly appreciated as I need to Nvidia driver installed as I plan to game with this PC.

lsmod | grep -P 'nvidia|nouveau'
nouveau              3649536  1
mxm_wmi                12288  1 nouveau
drm_gpuvm              45056  1 nouveau
gpu_sched              65536  1 nouveau
drm_exec               12288  2 drm_gpuvm,nouveau
drm_ttm_helper         16384  2 nouveau
ttm                   118784  2 drm_ttm_helper,nouveau
i2c_algo_bit           24576  1 nouveau
drm_display_helper    274432  1 nouveau
video                  81920  1 nouveau
wmi                    32768  4 video,wmi_bmof,mxm_wmi,nouveau

Below is additional info

lspci -vnn | grep -A9 -P 'VGA|3D|Display'
07:00.0 Non-Volatile memory controller [0108]: Sandisk Corp SanDisk Ultra 3D / WD PC SN530, IX SN530, Blue SN550 NVMe SSD (DRAM-less) [15b7:5009] (rev 01) (prog-if 02 [NVM Express])
	Subsystem: Sandisk Corp WD Blue SN550 NVMe SSD [15b7:5009]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 62
	Memory at fca00000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
	Memory at fca04000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nvme
	Kernel modules: nvme

08:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation AD104 [GeForce RTX 4070 Ti] [10de:2782] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
	Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. [MSI] Device [1462:5132]
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 86
	Memory at fb000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
	Memory at 7800000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16G]
	Memory at 7c00000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
	I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
	Expansion ROM at fc000000 [disabled] [size=512K]
	Capabilities: <access denied>
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau

pacman -Q | grep -P 'nvidia|nouveau'
linux-firmware-nvidia 20250708-1

please go open a new thread, this is not really related to this initial topic.
Adding:
inxi -Gaz
pacman -Qs nvidia
to this new post, and we will see what is happen on your setup.