When I try in a fresh Garuda install to install the Nvidia proprietary drivers through the Garuda settings manager, I only have the option to install the open source alternative. I’ve been investigating to the why of this and I see that when I use the mhwd -l command, I see the only available configs are the open source drivers.
Okay, so I downloaded the Nvidia drivers with mhwd -i pci video-nvidia-470xx-dkms and installed. And I removed the FOSS drivers with mhwd -r pci video-linux removed.
So when using mhwd -li, the only drivers that are installed are the video-nvidia-470xx-dkms. So I decided to reboot and little system services started so I can only get to the terminal through Start + Alt + F2. I typed mhwd -l and the only available configs are the FOSS drivers, I used mhwd -li and the only installed configs are the Nonfree NVIDIA drivers. So the system is broken as there are no “available” drivers installed, even if the Nvidia drivers are installed. It’s like some sort of configuration on system install that exclusively accepts FOSS drivers and nothing else.
I’m very confident the solution to the issue is to be able to edit that configuration to accept Nvidia drivers as valid, but the issue is I don’t know the command for that and I didn’t find anything.
I’m making this post on mobile as I can’t access the forum through my PC, and since the system has almost nothing started, I can’t connect to the internet either.
I know it’s a rule to post the garuda-inxi output, but I can’t copy and paste it here for the same reason. I took a picture of the screen with my phone but I can’t upload it due to my forum permissions. I apologize if it’s an annoyance.
Okay, I removed anything related to nvidia-470xx and installed nvidia-dkms. I rebooted and I’m still having the same issue. I will do another reinstall to show you how it looks exactly in a clean system.
I reinstalled it again and no button appeared to install the proprietary drivers. Only a button to install open source. I really want to use Wayland because of the security/privacy advantages even if it can be really hard to get it working along nvidia drivers.
Apart from the fact that I wrote that you should install it with the free drivers first, it is in this grub menu under the free drivers. Just click the text, like tz (time zone) and so on.
I booted up on the live ISO using FOSS drivers, and I still don’t see an option to install proprietary drivers. I will proceed with an installation now.
After rebooting, post the FULL output of garuda-inxi in the body of the post (not linked externally, or collapsed with the “hide details” feature)
Format terminal output (including your garuda-inxi) as a code block by clicking the preformatted text button (</>) , or put three tildes (~) above and below the text.
There is no option.
Open terminal/konsole, copy and paste the command
For the garuda-inxi part, I didn’t do it like how it should be done as I automatically generated a password for my forum account which is really long and it would be extremely long to set up the manager and all of that, so using the privatebin was faster. And when opening the privatebin from my phone it tells me my browser doesn’t support WebAssembly, so I had to do this.
I installed nvidia-dkms with the command @filo told me, it installed successfully.
What should I do now? I noticed that I’m not able to set the refresh rate to 144 Hz, when I try to do so my screen will become black and it will automatically revert to 60 Hz after a few seconds. When I go to “About this System”, I see the Graphics Processor is AMD Radeon (Integrated). How can I change it to be Nvidia?
I can add the garuda-inxi in an edit if you are okay with it, as the only way I have is to add an external link to it.
If you check your post, I have already fixed that.
Next, I mark the solution.
And you, please open new help request, if needed, please follow the template.
