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MartzMechanical

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Registered: 2024-08-22

Posts: 12

[SOLVED] NVIDIA: Reinstalled Arch graphics driver not working

Hi,

I have a NVIDIA GTX 970 in my desktop computer. Everything was working fine but due to some other issues I had to wipe everything again.
My GPU is Maxwell so according to the Arch WIKI if I've read it correctly then I need to install nvidia nvidia-utils and nvidia-settings.

But to avoid any issues on a fresh install I installed the open source drivers as part of the archinstall script.
After setting a few things up I then installed the aforementioned nvidia packages.

I could still login via SDDM to a KDE Plasma desktop under Wayland however my screen resolution is very poor and a single monitor is detected which is cloned across both screens.
I did a little digging and found that the kernel modules are loaded.
However when I look over JournalCtl I see this error message:

nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel

Not sure if its the cause but I thought it would be a good starting point.
I'm hoping to set this up as a gaming PC so getting it working is a bit of a must - then I'll do the sane thing and never buy a NVIDIA GPU again.

Happy to learn any steps needed so it doesnt happen again and to increas my troubleshooting skills

Thanks in Advance,
Martz

Last edited by MartzMechanical (2024-09-12 10:48:45)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 23,606

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA: Reinstalled Arch graphics driver not working

Wayland and nvidia anything requires the nvidia-drm.modeset=1 kernel parameter, is that set up? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_parameters

Other than that post a journal/the link you get from

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

MartzMechanical

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Registered: 2024-08-22

Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] NVIDIA: Reinstalled Arch graphics driver not working

That did the trick thankyou so much!