ASUS Screenpad worked upon first boot of live Garuda USB stick, but not after installation

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You choose before booting into the live environment. The menu where you make the choice looks like the photo in this post: Hardware error while trying to boot Garuda from USB - #5 by deandre

Try following the guidance here to make sure you have the needed environment variables set and packages installed, and DRM kernel mode setting enabled. NVidia – Hyprland Wiki

Note while setting up the latter, we use dracut instead of mkinitcpio. So instead of the guidance in that doc, follow the guidance here: dracut - ArchWiki

Early kernel module loading

Dracut enables early loading (at the initramfs stage, via modprobe) through its --force_drivers command or force_drivers+="" config entry line. For example:

/etc/dracut.conf.d/myflags.conf

# ... 
force_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm " 
# ...

After setting up the dracut config, regenerate your initrds with this script:

sudo dracut-rebuild
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