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KingOfGirth

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Registered: 2025-06-16

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Fresh arch install - Nvidia card issue

Fresh install using "archinstall" script. Selected:
vanilla linux kernel
Gnome desktop
propriatory Nvidia drivers

I have 1 monitor plugged into my motherboard using intergrated graphics (intel i7 7700k), and a 2nd monitor plugged into my GPU (GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER)

Upon getting into the desktop I encountered this behavior on the GPU monitor:
https://imgur.com/a/KPaa1qi

My iGPU monitor works normally, but any window/menu I drag over to display on the GPU monitor "works" but keeps distorting in the way shown in the image.

My questions are:
1. What term is used to describe this behavior? (so I can better look up solutions)
2. What is causing the issue/ How do I go about finding the cause of the issue?

Here are some command outputs I hope can help.
nvidia-smt

[kingo@Kingo-A5 ~]$ nvidia-smi
Mon Jun 16 12:12:59 2025       
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 575.57.08              Driver Version: 575.57.08      CUDA Version: 12.9     |
|-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name                 Persistence-M | Bus-Id          Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp   Perf          Pwr:Usage/Cap |           Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                                         |                        |               MIG M. |
|=========================================+========================+======================|
|   0  NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 ...    Off |   00000000:02:00.0  On |                  N/A |
| 24%   40C    P8              5W /  215W |     158MiB /   8192MiB |      2%      Default |
|                                         |                        |                  N/A |
+-----------------------------------------+------------------------+----------------------+
                                                                                         
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                              |
|  GPU   GI   CI              PID   Type   Process name                        GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                               Usage      |
|=========================================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A            1250      G   /usr/bin/gnome-shell                     66MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            1794    C+G   /usr/bin/epiphany                        27MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            2950    C+G   /usr/bin/nautilus                        22MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A            4116    C+G   /usr/bin/kgx                             22MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+

loginctl show-session 3 -p Type

Type=wayland

Last edited by KingOfGirth (2025-06-17 22:47:34)

airbus777neo

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Registered: 2025-06-03

Posts: 17

Re: [SOLVED] Fresh arch install - Nvidia card issue

First thing I'd think to do is just to check the correct drivers are installed and installed properly (edit: though looking back on my post I think less so this would be the issue, since nvidia-smi detects the driver. All below may still be worth a look at), following the wiki, including a quick glance at

pacman -Qs nvidia

Particularly including looking at the AUR package as stated below the table, as well as here and here regarding interaction with Wayland

Lastly, it might be worth looking at this page, and subsequent sections, if the above has no effect: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA … en_tearing

(the 2070 Super btw regards the NV160 Turing family, seen here)

If that doesn't sort anything though, I would be of little help...

Edit: Might help posting some logs/info, like these, namely

lspci -k
glxinfo -B
vulkaninfo --summary

Last edited by airbus777neo (2025-06-17 19:23:58)

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KingOfGirth

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Registered: 2025-06-16

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Fresh arch install - Nvidia card issue

So I've spent these entire 2 days poking around the wiki and various forums and I've turned up nothing. I tried downgrading the drivers to the versions I see working in the cachyOS and Garuda distros from a live USB using this:

downgrade nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia nvidia-dkms lib32-opencl-nvidia

But, it just turns off the signal to the GPU. I think I needed to downgrade the kernel, but that's as far as I got.

Seems that this is just an issue with the RTX 2070 SUPER card. My fix was switching to an old Geforce GTX 1080 TI my brother lent me. The latest propitiatory drivers work perfectly well on the OLDER 1080...

For reference the drivers causing the issue are : 575.57.08
The drivers that worked on the 2070 were: 570.124.04

Hope this can help anyone digging in these forums with this issue.

Last edited by KingOfGirth (2025-06-17 22:45:30)