Problem and solutions wih nvidia 495 driver troubleshooting

[Zircon34]

Just a heads up that on certain nvidia systems the eos nvidia installer script seems to be problematic. Here are the steps I followed and troubleshoot, in case someone else runs into the issue with recent hardware (doesn’t apply to incompatible nvidia, read up the pinned thread for that Nvidia drops 700 (Kepler) into legacy branch (470xx) - #37 by joekamprad).

EDIT: of course you can skip steps 1-3, which explain what did not work for my system, and how to troubleshoot.

1. sudo nvidia-installer-dkms installed nvidia via script
2. reboot hangs on black screen (tried lts and recent kernel)
3. went to tty Ctrl+Alt+F3 and moved back to nouveau driver sudo nvidia-installer-dkms -n
4. installed nvidia driver via pacman sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms
5. boot into 5.14 kernel (lts did hang, so better use the new kernel)

Here is my hardware info:

$ inxi -Ga
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel CoffeeLake-H GT2 [UHD Graphics 630] vendor: Lenovo driver: i915
           v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:3e9b class-ID: 0300
           Device-2: NVIDIA TU117GLM [Quadro T2000 Mobile / Max-Q] vendor: Lenovo
           driver: nvidia v: 495.44 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus-ID: 01:00.0
         

I also want to mention that I just installed KDE plasma via online installer, and that the installer failed twice when I chose to install with nvidia driver. Installed then via nouveau driver. Previously I had gnome and most recent eos iso, and did not seem to have a problem with nvidia 495 driver, but who knows what is going on. Nvidia is a mess.

[Scotty_Trees]

It’s been a rough week for users with nvidia I see. As an nvidia/intel user I count myself lucky, at least for this moment in time

Others less fortunate have been seen here recently:
The first link below ended up being solved after a very, very lengthy discussion. The second link is still ongoing for a solution, not sure if you’re information may possibly be of use, hmm.

Nvidia 495 "supported"

hey im pretty new to linux and endeavourOS in general so please try to be kind Yesterday my system ‘broke’ because of the new nvidia driver now i checked with nvidia-driver-supported-branches -a and now it says that the nvidia 495 drivers are supported. [mixel@mixel-ms7a33 ~]$ nvidia-driver-supported-branches -a NVIDIA card id: 1c03 Series 495: supported Series 470: supported Series 390: supported Series 340: not supported should I reinstall the nvidia 495 drivers now? …

Struggling to install nvidia and optimus

Hello, I’m a new french user. I try to migrate 3 computer on Endeavour OS. Using Xfce. I have some difficulties with installation of nvidia on my laptop with 2 GPU whereas my 2 others monoGPU nvidia computer running without problem. Without optimus : – black screen on nvidia-installer-dkms : have to login in tty then using nvidia-installer-dkms -b to reboot on lightdm. for a working xfce I do invidia-installer-dkms -b ; for installing optimus : I do : systemctl disable bumblebeed.serv…

[Zircon34]

@Scotty_Trees

It’s been a rough week for users with nvidia I see.

I am not out of the woods yet. Connecting a second monitor and everything is laggy. Could be better with gnome and wayland, will have to try another install. Hoped to use kde on this lappy, but not happy

Saw the long post, glad that it got solved.

Haven’t tried yet Optimus today… battery is draining on Nvidia.

[ricklinux]

I’m running fine on Nvidia 495.xx but is single desktop GTX1060. It upgraded fine and i also have installed the 5.15 kernel and is working.

Edit: This is on Xfce with dual boot Windows 11

[Zircon34]

@ricklinux

I’m running fine on Nvidia 495.xx but is single desktop GTX1060

Definitely last time ever I will get a hybrid graphics with Nvidia, total show

[ricklinux]

Yes i will also never buy a Hybrid laptop. I have Ryzen using amdgpu on laptop.