Problems after switching from AMD to NVIDIA GTX 5060 TI

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Hey folks,
I just switched from AMD to a NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti and can’t quite get the driver to work.
I first tried nvidia-inst, and that suggested to opt for yay -S nvidia-beta-dkms.

So I did just that but it doesn’t seem to work.. I mean it gets installed but it does not detect displays properly, as the first one is listed incorrectly and the second is missing altogether.
I think I’m missing something here..

Here are some outputs that might be relevant, thank all of you in advance!

nvidia-inst --drivers 
NVIDIA card id: 2d04
Fetching driver data from nvidia.com ...

Series 575: supported (nvidia.com: 575.51.02)

NOTE: nvidia-beta-dkms 575.51.02 is an AUR package. To install it, use command:
   yay -S nvidia-beta-dkms


inxi -Gaz              
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia v: 575.51.02
    alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: N/A status: unknown device ID pcie:
    gen: 5 speed: 32 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.0
    chip-ID: 10de:2d04 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Raphael vendor: Gigabyte
    driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
    built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
    empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, Writeback-1 bus-ID: 0f:00.0
    chip-ID: 1002:164e class-ID: 0300 temp: 30.0 C
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
    compositor: Picom v: 12.5 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,modesetting,nouveau
    alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: nvidia,amdgpu display-ID: :0
    screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1024x768 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 270x203mm (10.63x7.99")
    s-diag: 338mm (13.3")
  Monitor-1: Unknown-1 mapped: None-1 res: mode: 1024x768 hz: 60
    scale: 100% (1) size: N/A modes: 1024x768
  API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: amd radeonsi platforms: device: 0 drv: radeonsi
    device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: radeonsi x11:
    drv: swrast inactive: wayland
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: mesa v: 25.0.3-arch1.1 glx-v: 1.4
    direct-render: yes renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 19.1.7 256 bits)
    device-ID: ffffffff:ffffffff memory: 29.78 GiB unified: yes
  Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo gpu: nvidia-smi
    x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
None-1 connected primary 1024x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1024x768      60.00*+

pacman -Q | grep nvidia
nvidia-beta-dkms 575.51.02-1
nvidia-inst 25.4.8-1
nvidia-utils-beta 575.51.02-2
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I wonder if its something to do with your cpu’s gpu driver being loaded too . . . have you tried disabling the iGPU in bios?

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I think you should be using the latest nvidia open drivers.

4

I believe the beta-dkms is the absolute latest open nvidia driver. The proprietary drivers only apply to legacy gpus. (coming from someone who baselessly doubted the “nvidia-inst” script earlier this week :winking_face_with_tongue:)

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Well there are nvidia-open-dkms and nvidia-open-beta-dkms and also nvidia-open and nvidia-open-beta

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Ah I bet open-beta-dkms is the answer then!

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Ya think? :rofl:

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That was quick. Indeed, installing

was the solution!

I think I might not have thought of that because of this output not mentioning the package:

nvidia-inst --open 
2025-04-20 15:19:05: Info: nvidia-inst version 25.4.8-1
2025-04-20 15:19:05: Info: Command line: nvidia-inst --open
2025-04-20 15:19:05: Info: Selected mode: nvidia (Nvidia's open source)
2025-04-20 15:19:07: Error: your card is supported by an AUR package nvidia-beta-dkms,
but nvidia-inst does not support beta packages.
You can install nvidia-beta-dkms (and related packages) manually.

Thank you all for the great and quick suggestions!

For the record: Disabling the iGPU in bios did not help is my case.

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Note that NVIDIA recommends all new GPUs (after the Turing family) to use the open drivers by NVIDIA.

Also see this: https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/575.51.02/README/supportedchips.html. Your GPU id 2d04 appears on this latest driver 575 series (but not before), and that driver is only in AUR currently.