Installing Nvidia Drivers

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Hello.

I am new to Garuda Linux and also to Arch. i want to install navidia driver in place of nouveau because getting a lot frame drops.

When I try to install

pacman -S navidia

and then restart i can't boot it sticks on blinking cursor with black screen. And when live boot with NVIDIA driver it stucks on "Terminate Pymouth ....". I have tried to download from navidia official website by searching drivers it was unable to install.

Here's inxi -Faz

System:
Kernel: 5.15.12-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=0190f785-7cc5-44bf-8d30-55b68e45fb58 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3 vt.global_cursor_default=0 loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.4 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock wm: kwin_x11
vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: Gigabyte model: H81M-S v: x.x
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends v: F2
date: 08/19/2015
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i5-4590S bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell family: 6
model-id: 0x3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 0x28
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 4 smt: <unsupported> cache: L1: 256 KiB
desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 6 MiB
desc: 1x6 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2484 high: 3678 min/max: 800/3700 scaling:
driver: intel_cpufreq governor: schedutil cores: 1: 2189 2: 1684 3: 2386
4: 3678 bogomips: 23944
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities:
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT disabled
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: disabled, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics
vendor: Gigabyte driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:0412
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: ZOTAC driver: nouveau
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:128b class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 compositor: kwin_x11 driver:
loaded: intel,nouveau unloaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa
display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1440x900 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 381x238mm (15.0x9.4")
s-diag: 449mm (17.7")
Monitor-1: HDMI-1 res: 1440x900 hz: 60 dpi: 89
size: 409x256mm (16.1x10.1") diag: 483mm (19")
Message: Unable to show advanced data. Required tool glxinfo missing.
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:03.0 chip-ID: 8086:0c0c
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio
vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
chip-ID: 8086:8c20 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: NVIDIA GK208 HDMI/DP Audio vendor: ZOTAC driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0e0f class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.12-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.42 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8169 v: kernel port: d000 bus-ID: 03:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 149.05 GiB used: 7.64 GiB (5.1%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Samsung model: HD161HJ
size: 149.05 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 3.0 Gb/s
type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 0-07 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 148.75 GiB size: 148.75 GiB (100.00%)
used: 7.64 GiB (5.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 576 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 148.75 GiB size: 148.75 GiB (100.00%)
used: 7.64 GiB (5.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 148.75 GiB size: 148.75 GiB (100.00%)
used: 7.64 GiB (5.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 148.75 GiB size: 148.75 GiB (100.00%)
used: 7.64 GiB (5.1%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.66 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 29.8 C mobo: 27.8 C gpu: nouveau temp: 33.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 190 Uptime: 17m wakeups: 0 Memory: 7.66 GiB
used: 1.6 GiB (20.9%) Init: systemd v: 250 tool: systemctl Compilers:
gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 13.0.0 Packages: pacman: 1143 lib: 293 Shell: fish
v: 3.3.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.12 running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.11

Sorry for my bad English.

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There is no driver named like that… but I will assume it’s just a typo.

Your inxi -Faz tells me you got a GeForce GT 710.
From the arch wiki NVIDIA - ArchWiki

For the Kepler (NVE0) series (including GeForce 630-920) from around 2013-2014, install the nvidia-470xx-dkmsAUR package.

Garuda also comes with mhwd to auto install drivers.

You could also try that.
To start the GUI for that (note: I am on KDE the command may vary):

/usr/bin/kcmshell5 msm_mhwd

Please don’t just copy paste but read the arch wiki what you can try to fix your issue.

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Ok I will try that. Thanks. Half of the problem you have solved.
When i run

/usr/bin/kcmshell5 msm_mhwd

I found video-navidia-390xx-dkms under my display controller should i install that or nvidia-470xx-dkms

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From the arch wiki I would go with the 470xx
Again, does it really say navidia?! :thinking: some bootleg video card? :smiley:

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Oh I forgot, since this is your first post here.

Welcome to the Garuda Community :heart:

:wink:

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Now, i have successfully install NVIDIA but how set this as my default driver?

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I think you can only have one installed anyway? :thinking: arch wiki will know more.

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i didn't get you.

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I believe you can only have one installed, so that one is default anyway.

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I got this command from web

sudo lspci | grep ' VGA ' | cut -d" " -f 1 | xargs -i lspci -v -s {}

And when i run it:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device d000
  Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 31
  Memory at f7400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
  Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
  I/O ports at f000 [size=64]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: i915
  Kernel modules: i915

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
  Subsystem: ZOTAC International (MCO) Ltd. Device 7326
  Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 30
  Memory at f6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
  Memory at e0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=128M]
  Memory at e8000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
  I/O ports at e000 [size=128]
  Expansion ROM at 000c0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
  Capabilities: <access denied>
  Kernel driver in use: nouveau
  Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

In Kernel Modules of Navidia there are three.
If i can't set as default. Can i remove them which are not required?

nvidia-smi Running this getting error

NVIDIA-SMI has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.

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If you want to install nvidia drivers, I suggest you take a look at Linux-TKG's git.

I am using this for a long time and it has been totally flawless. You do have to update the drivers yourself once in a while as it isn't automated.

Please take the time to read carefully that page so you follow proper instructions, if you choose to try it out.

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I’d recommend using the packages in the repos rather than a third-party installer. :man_shrugging:

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