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quelziz

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From: Poland

Registered: 2026-02-08

Posts: 8

Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

Hey, so i tried installing arch with the archinstall script, and i chose nouveau drivers for my graphics card (quadro m2000m). Today i saw that i wasn't getting any output from my HDMI port, so i thought that i should download the official NVIDIA drivers, but now i can't get them to work, and im stuck on nouveau. After installing the nvidia drivers i tried:

- Reinstalling the drivers
- Blocking nouveau drivers with a Kernel Boot Parameter
- Blocking nouveau in the config
- uninstalling xf86-video-nouveau
- removing kms hook from mkinitcpio.conf

and after all this " lspci -nnk | grep -iA2 vga" still shows that nouveau is in use, and not the nvidia drivers.

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mms1313

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Registered: 2025-08-06

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Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

Did you download the drivers from the nvidia website?

quelziz

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From: Poland

Registered: 2026-02-08

Posts: 8

Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

Did you download the drivers from the nvidia website?

I downloaded the nvidia-580xx-dkms package from the AUR using Yay.  I saw someone saying that they dont reccomend downloading it directly from the nvidia website so i used aur

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mms1313

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Registered: 2025-08-06

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Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

That is the wrong driver for quadro m2000m, the driver you should be installing is nvidia-470xx-dkms. Use the nvidia-470xx-dkms driver instead of nvidia-580xx-dkms and uninstall the nouveau drivers.

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

No, 580 is correct for a Maxwell card.

quelziz, what does pacman -Qs 'nvidia|kernel' show?

quelziz

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From: Poland

Registered: 2026-02-08

Posts: 8

Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

No, 580 is correct for a Maxwell card.

quelziz, what does pacman -Qs 'nvidia|kernel' show?

It returns this

[quelziz@quelziz-P50 ~]$ pacman -Qs 'nvidia|kernel'
local/dkms 3.3.0-1
    Dynamic Kernel Modules System
local/egl-gbm 1.1.3-1
    The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.21-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-wayland2 1.0.0.rc.r57.g1893c37-1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform (2)
local/egl-x11 1.0.4-1
    NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/fuse3 3.18.1-1
    Interface for userspace programs to export a filesystem to the Linux kernel
local/iptables 1:1.8.11-2
    Linux kernel packet control tool (using legacy interface)
local/kmod 34.2-1
    Linux kernel module management tools and library
local/lib32-libdrm 2.4.131-1
    Userspace interface to kernel DRM services (32-bit)
local/lib32-libvdpau 1.5-3
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libdrm 2.4.131-1
    Userspace interface to kernel DRM services
local/libnetfilter_conntrack 1.0.9-2
    Library providing an API to the in-kernel connection tracking state table
local/libnfnetlink 1.0.2-2
    Low-level library for netfilter related kernel/userspace communication
local/libsysprof-capture 49.0-1
    Kernel based performance profiler - capture library
local/libvdpau 1.5-3
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 590.48.01-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/linux 6.18.7.arch1-1
    The Linux kernel and modules
local/linux-api-headers 6.18-1
    Kernel headers sanitized for use in userspace
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 20260110-1
    Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for NVIDIA GPUs and SoCs
local/linux-headers 6.18.7.arch1-1
    Headers and scripts for building modules for the Linux kernel
local/linux-lts 6.12.69-1
    The LTS Linux kernel and modules
local/mtdev 1.1.7-1
    A stand-alone library which transforms all variants of kernel MT events to the slotted type B protocol
local/nvidia-580xx-dkms 580.126.09-1
    NVIDIA kernel modules - module sources (580xx)
local/nvidia-580xx-utils 580.126.09-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (580xx)

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

OK, so you have 2 kernels installed, which one are you using (uname -r)? You only have the headers installed for one of them, so there would have been an error building the modules for the other one that you ignored.

quelziz

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From: Poland

Registered: 2026-02-08

Posts: 8

Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

OK, so you have 2 kernels installed, which one are you using (uname -r)? You only have the headers installed for one of them, so there would have been an error building the modules for the other one that you ignored.

Im using the LTS one (6.12.69-1-lts)

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

Which is the one that errored out because the headers aren't installed. Always read what pacman tells you, that goes double when using DKMS.

quelziz

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From: Poland

Registered: 2026-02-08

Posts: 8

Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

Which is the one that errored out because the headers aren't installed. Always read what pacman tells you, that goes double when using DKMS.

So what should i do know?

Sorry for asking this but my english is kinda bad T-T

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quelziz

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From: Poland

Registered: 2026-02-08

Posts: 8

Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

Which is the one that errored out because the headers aren't installed. Always read what pacman tells you, that goes double when using DKMS.

and regarding to this one, i think i didn't saw any errors. yes, i saw header errors, but after installing the package linux-headers, i didn't saw any errors anymore

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynami … stallation

quelziz

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From: Poland

Registered: 2026-02-08

Posts: 8

Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Dynami … stallation

I installed dkms and linux-lts-headers. what now?

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Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

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Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

And did the modules build? If so, you should be fine.

quelziz

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From: Poland

Registered: 2026-02-08

Posts: 8

Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

And did the modules build? If so, you should be fine.

Thank you! It works!
The only thing i saw that is kinda concerting that is detects nouvaeu AND nvidia, but it at least outputs normally now

[quelziz@quelziz-P50 ~]$ lspci -k -d ::03xx
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107GLM [Quadro M2000M] (rev a2)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device 2230
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia
        Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

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seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 73,153

Re: Can't get NVIDIA drivers working

The only thing i saw that is kinda concerting that is detects nouvaeu AND nvidia

The line will list all modules that match the device, "in use" is the relevant one.

Please always remember to mark resolved threads by editing your initial posts subject - so others will know that there's no task left, but maybe a solution to find.
Thanks.

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