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josiahwelch

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Registered: 2025-08-17

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Unable to get 50xx series Nvidia GPU to work properly

Hello and thanks in advance,

I recently upgraded my graphics card on my desktop among other upgrades. I am currently trying to get Nvidia drivers to work properly with my 5070 Ti.

I have an AMD CPU with integrated graphics as a fallback.

I have attempted to install Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 24.04 as well without any luck. I have made a seperate post on Ubuntu's forums and that didn't end up working.

I tried 'nvidia', 'nvidia-open', 'nvidia-beta', and 'nvidia-open-beta' drivers on Arch and none worked.

I added 'modprobe.blacklist=nouveau nvidia-drm.modeset=1' to the kernel params in grub.

I can confirm that the setup works on Windows 10 (to my knowledge).

Any advice on getting it to work in Arch Linux?

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Unable to get 50xx series Nvidia GPU to work properly

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation
You'll need nvidia-open for a blackwell chip, make sure to get nouveau out of the initramfs or balcklisted and then please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'file=@-' 0x0.st

and then quantify "unable" and "work properly"

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josiahwelch

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Registered: 2025-08-17

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Re: Unable to get 50xx series Nvidia GPU to work properly

Apologies for the delay,

I have Nouveau blacklisted out of the initramfs and i dont have amd drivers installed.

here is the logs for the computer booting without Nvidia drivers: https://0x0.st/KMvB.txt

I am unable to boot (it crashes) when i force Nvidia drivers to be used (blacklisting Nvidia in kernel params) so how can i get logs from a failed boot?

josiahwelch

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Registered: 2025-08-17

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Re: Unable to get 50xx series Nvidia GPU to work properly

And by "unable ... to work properly" I meant that it either fallsback to Nouveau or it crashes while Systemd boots the system. I don't have a display manager configured so it boots into TTY.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Unable to get 50xx series Nvidia GPU to work properly

I don't see any issues there, and you *are* booting with nvidia there.

What command line options are you using when it doesn't work?

Last edited by Scimmia (2025-10-04 01:55:24)

josiahwelch

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Re: Unable to get 50xx series Nvidia GPU to work properly

wait really?

I thought I had the nvidia drivers blacklisted there

Scimmia

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Re: Unable to get 50xx series Nvidia GPU to work properly

See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … and_line_2 the option you're using doesn't actually blacklist it.

josiahwelch

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Registered: 2025-08-17

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Re: Unable to get 50xx series Nvidia GPU to work properly

I purged all beta drivers and utils and installed nvidia-open, nvidia-utils, nvidia-settings, and lib32-nvidia-utils

It boots with no added kernel params.

nvidia-smi shows the device properly and lspci -v shows the open source nvidia driver being loaded.

it crashes when I add the "nvidia-drm.modeset=1" to the parameters...

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: Unable to get 50xx series Nvidia GPU to work properly

We'll need to see a boot w/ the problematic conditions, ie. w/ nvidia-open and w/o "nvidia-drm.modeset=0"
Also make sure this isn't your display server config, can you still boot the multi-user.target this way (2nd link below)

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