Greeting
I have a HTPC with a ryzen 5 4600g that I use for kodi and some light gaming. It is running Garuda Gnome. Recently I got a gtx 1650 super as a hand me down and I decided to upgrade the htpc with it since it struggled with kodi and steam big picture in 4k. I have encountered a series of problems trying to get it to work properly with no avail so far. I tried installing the nvidia-dkms and nvidia-470xx drivers from the garuda hardware manager but I experienced problems as it seem to lock the pacman db sometimes and the 470xx installation seemed to be incomplete since it only worked after I installed all the packages(drivers plus the garuda-nvidia-470xx-config ones) manually. The problem is that I don’t think the open source(?) drivers work at all since the performance is worse than with the igpu plus kodi won’t launch at all. The 470xx (is this the proprietary one? I think I got a little confused) seems to work more or less but with them I can’t access Gnome X11 and I can’t use DXVK(lutris says the driver does not support it because its outdated) and although the performance is better in games I experience terrible flickering and some crashes. Right now I followed the Arch Wiki and installed the nvidia-open-dkms but it seems to work exactly like nvidia-dkms which means very poor performance but it works otherwise and kodi is still MIA.
I would much appreciate any help on the issue, I always read online that NVIDIA gpus are problematic in Linux but I never experienced it my self. Guess it’s true.
Thank you for your time.
ystem:
Kernel: 6.12.10-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1 clocksource: tsc
avail: hpet,acpi_pm parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=2b3fac6a-0fc5-4b3d-9072-1d5affbe850b rw rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash
nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia-drm.fbdev=1 ibt=off
Console: pty pts/0 DM: GDM v: 47.0 Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: A520M-ITX/ac serial: <superuser required>
uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: American Megatrends LLC. v: P2.00 date: 09/30/2022
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 4600G with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen 2 gen: 2
level: v3 note: check built: 2020-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) family: 0x17 (23)
model-id: 0x60 (96) stepping: 1 microcode: 0x860010D
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 1 cores: 6 threads: 12 tpc: 2 smt: enabled cache:
L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 2x4 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2381 min/max: 400/4308 boost: enabled scaling: driver: amd-pstate-epp
governor: performance cores: 1: 2381 2: 2381 3: 2381 4: 2381 5: 2381 6: 2381 7: 2381 8: 2381
9: 2381 10: 2381 11: 2381 12: 2381 bogomips: 88637
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 [GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER] driver: nvidia v: 565.77
alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm non-free: 550/565.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-01;
EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Turing code: TUxxx process: TSMC 12nm FF built: 2018-2022 pcie: gen: 1
speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-1
empty: DP-1,DVI-D-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2187 class-ID: 0300
Display: unspecified server: X.org v: 1.21.1.15 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
compositor: gnome-shell driver: X: loaded: nouveau unloaded: modesetting failed: nvidia
alternate: fbdev,nv,vesa gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch tty: 101x52
Monitor-1: HDMI-A-1 model: Samsung serial: <filter> built: 2018 res: 3840x2160 dpi: 103
gamma: 1.2 size: 1872x1053mm (73.7x41.46") diag: 1093mm (43") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 3840x2160
min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia gbm: drv: nvidia surfaceless:
drv: nvidia wayland: drv: nvidia inactive: x11
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 vendor: nvidia v: 565.77 note: console (EGL sourced) renderer: NVIDIA
GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.303 layers: 10 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
SUPER driver: N/A device-ID: 10de:2187 surfaces: wayland device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 19.1.7 256 bits) driver: N/A device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: wayland
Info: Tools: api: eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo gpu: nvidia-smi,radeontop
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA TU116 High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3
speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:1aeb class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4
speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 06:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio vendor: ASRock
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4
speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 06:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
Device-4: Creative Sound Blaster Play! 2 driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid type: USB
rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-4:2 chip-ID: 041e:323d class-ID: 0300
serial: <filter>
API: ALSA v: k6.12.10-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: sndiod v: N/A status: off tools: aucat,midicat,sndioctl
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: ASRock
driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 port: e000 bus-ID: 04:00.0
chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp4s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel pcie:
gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1 bus-ID: 05:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fb class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp5s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, sshd, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Wireless-AC 3168 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 3-9:4 chip-ID: 8087:0aa7 class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up address: <filter> bt-v: 4.2 lmp-v: 8 status:
discoverable: no pairing: no class-ID: 6c0104
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 338.18 GiB used: 178.77 GiB (52.9%)
SMART Message: Required tool smartctl not installed. Check --recommends
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingston model: SA400M8240G size: 223.57 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD serial: <filter> fw-rev: 66.5
scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: SanDisk model: USB 3.2Gen1 size: 114.61 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: USB rev: 3.2 spd: 5 Gb/s lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1
tech: N/A serial: <filter> fw-rev: 1.00 scheme: MBR
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 214.47 GiB size: 214.47 GiB (100.00%) used: 73.24 GiB (34.2%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 584 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 214.47 GiB size: 214.47 GiB (100.00%) used: 73.24 GiB (34.2%) fs: btrfs
dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 214.47 GiB size: 214.47 GiB (100.00%) used: 73.24 GiB (34.2%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 214.47 GiB size: 214.47 GiB (100.00%) used: 73.24 GiB (34.2%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 7.13 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100 comp: zstd
avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842 max-streams: 12 dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3
maj-min: 8:3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB note: est. available: 7.13 GiB used: 1.92 GiB (26.9%)
Processes: 335 Power: uptime: 1m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep avail: s2idle
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume image: 2.81 GiB
services: gsd-power, power-profiles-daemon, upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical
tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1703 libs: 543 tools: pamac,paru Compilers: clang: 19.1.7
gcc: 14.2.1 Shell: garuda-inxi default: Bash v: 5.2.37 running-in: pty pts/0 (SSH) inxi: 3.3.37
Garuda (2.6.26-1.1):
System install date: 2023-02-11
Last full system update: 2025-01-25
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager mkinitcpio
Windows dual boot: No/Undetected
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