Garuda Linux "Broadwing" (250308)

[Heracraft]

I don’t mean written from the ground up by IA, more like refined by IA. Meaning IA was used to rephrase/rewrite bits and pieces.

But that’s what it read like to me, I could be wrong.

[zoeruda]

I think it’s either Nico is a really good writer and coder, or he is secretly himself an advanced AI developed by Garuda’s founders. You can choose which one to believe.

Summary

Personally I highly doubt he needs or wants something like Grammarly or some gpt going over his stuff.

[ciobanucos]

I did this but it still shows the spinning wheel on the terminal, even though is done, see images

[dr460nf1r3]

@ciobanucos

I did this but it still shows the spinning wheel on the terminal, even though is done, see images

This will be fixed in an upcoming release, thank you.

[nepti]

</Off Topic>

Your nvidia-dkms drivers have no kernel headers to cuddle with. Install with:

sudo pacman -S linux-headers

and reboot.

[LucenLuc]

In the image to put the password it appears “Cache in this session” What does it mean? I’m sorry if I’m asking a silly question but I don’t know what it means right now.

[filo]

It means that you won’t have to enter your password again in that RANI session, in case of other tasks requiring your password.

[LucasH06]

Only notebooks are affected? In case you mean the issue i think you mean, i actually can reproduce it. I have a thinkpad t430. And when i select the usb to boot from it, i get a black screen. But this is a grub issue about vga drivers. The “fix” for this issue is disabling all uefi boot entries except usb. And then reboot. This will make grub appear again.

[SGS]

@LucasH06

Disabling all uefi boot entries except usb

How did you do that on a dual boot (one nvme) with M$ and some Garuda DE’s on Lenovo BIOS?

[LucasH06]

Spam F1, goto startup with arrow keys, select boot, press enter, disable all entries except usb hdd. To disable entries, press “!”. Aka shift + 1. Dont change the boot order. This wont work. Its a bug. And to reenable do the same. Aka “!”. The disabled entries are down below the enabled ones. Use arrow keys to scroll down.

[SGS]

Thanks for the hints, but IDK what Spam F1 is.
F1 did not work for me, F2 I got the BIOS settings, F5/F6 I can move the boot order. Under F1 there is no help to get an entry to exclude from boot order. I see a text for that but ! / shift1 do nothing here.
Seems I start hating Lenovo too like ASUS and M$ my short search for slim Yoga Notebooks show other settings and keys to use than on my notebook. IDK if there other solutions or help when you use not a US keyboard. Best would be to fix the grub upstream bug.

Enter move nothing to a submenu.

[LucasH06]

You have other boot entries like, i3, kde, etc. Boot into it, and then use efibootmgr to disable everything except usb hdd.

[SGS]

Nope
I fix it it easier with ventoy and grub2 boot.

[LucasH06]

I can really recommend the thinkpad t430. Its still perfectly fine, even in 2025. And it has a waaay better looking uefi xD.

[Roberto]

Excellent response!

[potatoe]

I abosutely love the look of Mokka, but I recently installed a NVIDIA 5080 card. New installs of Broadwing work a while, until I try to initiate acceleration for my NVIDIA card.

What’s the best way to install Blackwell support in Broadwing? Install it with FOSS drivers, then install the VKMD stuff from NVIDIA? Is there a good package to support 5080 stuff?

I know, this makes me sound like an entitled Richie Rich. Not disagreeing, but curious if anyone has a suggestion

[elite]

you need nvidia open and the nividia dkms for cuda support and you will be golden. nothing special needed.