Ok so I have this weird issue with an update over the last few major updates where the installer is not recognizing my Nvidia card even though it worked perfectly fine before and works perfectly fine with Endeavor-OS. I really love Garuda and want to stick with it but the installer locks my resolution at 1080x720 and my screen is a full 1920x1080 HDR screen. I can’t even minimize the Garuda launcher. It doesn’t even TRY to install the proprietary drivers even if I select that option and if I select open source drivers it lags so freaking terribly that I can’t even load in.
I have used Garuda ALOT on this laptop over the last year and this issue has only cropped up in the last 2 or 3 months during a massive update.
I can’t even get a garuda.inix or a journalctl log because its refuses to properly work.
My system is
Processors: 12 × Intel® Core™ i7-8750H CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 16 GiB of RAM (15.5 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 with Max-Q Design
Manufacturer: HP
Product Name: OMEN by HP Laptop 15-dc1xxx
and I’ve never had this problem before. The boot up for the installer literally straight up skips the usual “Installing proprietary drivers” portion of the live OS. I’ll gladly provide any information requested if I can figure out how to access it via Endeavor.
Can you provide me with the output of lspci -nn -d "*:*:03xx"
Thanks.
Also, what edition would you like to install Garuda Linux with?
Also, if you launch with the open source drivers option instead, is your resolution more usable?
I believe this specific problem was already fixed, but it is not yet available in the latest ISOs. With the info from these questions, I should be able to narrow it down, however.
I would in no way complain about north of 30 minutes for a fix for then I literally spent 6 hours one day uninstalling, reinstalling, and trying to troubleshoot this problem. But I’m only about 9 months into my Linux journey and my very first home distro was Garuda Dragonized/Arch Linux… so obviously I’m a glutton for self torture and prefer a learning cliff as opposed to a curve. lmao
Bro…or Broette… I’m new here so I dunno which. you took literally 12 minutes to fix a problem that has had me blocked out of using my favorite OS for like 3 months… I feel both extremely grateful and immensely dumb. LMAO
Well, the issue wasn’t your fault. garuda-hardware-tool had a bug that stopped it from detecting your specific GPU model: TU106BM
There are two letters after the numbers BM, whereas the code expected there to be up to one letter (usually M for mobile). I don’t know what the B stands for, but I’ve added the possibility for an infinite amount of letters now, just in case
You’re not dumb for not being able to fix this. Fixing this with only the ISO file would be quite a challenge. Being able to make a new ISO file, of course, makes it much simpler.
What can I say, I take issues I myself have caused very seriously
I’d appreciate it if you could let me know if this fixed it. If not, we’ll need to look deeper, but that’s probably going to be a case for tomorrow (but I’m pretty sure this is fixed)
I literally spent 6 hours one day uninstalling, reinstalling, and trying to troubleshoot this problem. But I’m only about 9 months into my Linux journey and my very first home distro was Garuda Dragonized/Arch Linux… so obviously I’m a glutton for self torture and prefer a learning cliff as opposed to a curve. lmao
(but I’m pretty sure this is fixed)
-Baddum tss-