I typically install nvidia nueveau, which as far as I know are the open source drivers. In this case though, I’d assumed this was already done as it had been done a week ago, which @magdux had deduced wasn’t actually done. So I was at the mercy of his suggestions to simply find the reason that I could’t open steam to begin with. I will be doing yet another clean install tonight, this time with mokka, and I will try to see how\why it was missed.
As for your claim to the following:
Requests which fail basic precondition checks. For example you are not running Garuda Linux, did not search for a solution first, or you did not provide the information required to render assistance.
I did provide enough, just read the first post and check the edits if you must.
For posterity, I will add the inxi anyway.
System:
Kernel: 6.15.2-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.1.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=f42c05c8-be62-44f7-831e-b48f20f1219f rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet resume=UUID=c3c9b47b-eee5-4e3c-9c39-3586df04c4d9 loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.5 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.14.0
wm: kwin_wayland vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 21DC002YUS v: ThinkPad P1 Gen 5
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 21DC002YUS v: SDK0T76528 WIN
serial: <superuser required> part-nu: LENOVO_MT_21DC_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad
P1 Gen 5 uuid: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: N3JET42W (1.26 )
date: 09/25/2024
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 77.8 Wh (97.0%) condition: 80.2/90.1 Wh (89.1%)
power: 12.5 W volts: 17.5 min: 15.5 model: SMP 5B11B79217 type: Li-poly
serial: <filter> status: charging cycles: 33
CPU:
Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900H bits: 64 type: MST AMCP
arch: Alder Lake gen: core 12 level: v3 note: check built: 2021+
process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154) stepping: 3
microcode: 0x437
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 8 cores: 14 threads: 20 mt: 6 tpc: 2
st: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1.2 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 6x48 KiB; i-6x32
KiB, 8x64 KiB L2: 11.5 MiB desc: 6x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 24 MiB
desc: 1x24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/4900:5000:3800 scaling:
driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400 4: 400
5: 400 6: 400 7: 400 8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400 12: 400 13: 400 14: 400
15: 400 16: 400 17: 400 18: 400 19: 400 20: 400 bogomips: 116736
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Lenovo
driver: i915 v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Xe process: Intel 10nm
built: 2021-22+ ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-3, DP-4, DP-5, DP-6,
HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:46a6 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA103M [GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile] vendor: Lenovo
driver: nvidia v: 575.57.08 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm
non-free: 550-570.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-04; EOL~2026-12-xx)
arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-2023 pcie:
gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
ports: active: none empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:2420 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-8:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b74f
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.16 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nvidia
unloaded: nouveau alternate: fbdev,intel,nv,vesa dri: iris gpu: i915
display-ID: 0
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0ae0 built: 2021 res:
mode: 2560x1600 hz: 165 scale: 125% (1.25) to: 2048x1280 dpi: 189 gamma: 1.2
size: 344x215mm (13.54x8.46") diag: 406mm (16") ratio: 16:10
modes: 2560x1600
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0
drv: nvidia device: 1 drv: iris device: 3 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris
surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: device-2
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.1.3-arch1.3
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Xe Graphics (ADL
GT2) device-ID: 8086:46a6 memory: 61 GiB unified: yes display-ID: :1.0
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 layers: 15 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu
name: Intel Iris Xe Graphics (ADL GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 25.1.3-arch1.3
device-ID: 8086:46a6 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: discrete-gpu
name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Laptop GPU driver: nvidia v: 575.57.08
device-ID: 10de:2420 surfaces: N/A device: 2 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 20.1.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.1.3-arch1.3 (LLVM
20.1.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: corectrl,nvidia-smi wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs,
snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0401
Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: lanes: 16 bus-ID: 01:00.1
chip-ID: 10de:2288 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.15.2-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.5 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: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-10:5 chip-ID: 8087:0033
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.86 TiB used: 207.19 GiB (10.9%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD PC
SN810 SDCQNRZ-2T00-1001 size: 1.86 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 61560101 temp: 48.9 C scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 1.8 TiB size: 1.8 TiB (100.00%) used: 207.19 GiB (11.3%)
fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 616 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 1.8 TiB size: 1.8 TiB (100.00%)
used: 207.19 GiB (11.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 1.8 TiB size: 1.8 TiB (100.00%)
used: 207.19 GiB (11.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 1.8 TiB size: 1.8 TiB (100.00%)
used: 207.19 GiB (11.3%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 62.46 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842 dev: /dev/zram0
ID-2: swap-2 type: partition size: 68.71 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 51.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): fan-1: 0 fan-2: 3239
Info:
Memory: total: 64 GiB available: 62.46 GiB used: 6.54 GiB (10.5%)
Processes: 449 Power: uptime: 35m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
wakeups: 1 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume
image: 24.9 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil, power-profiles-daemon,
upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1777 libs: 530 tools: octopi,paru Compilers:
clang: 20.1.6 gcc: 15.1.1 Shell: garuda-inxi default: fish v: 4.0.2
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.38
Garuda (2.7.2-1):
System install date: 2025-06-14
Last full system update: 2025-06-14 ↻
Is partially upgraded: No
Relevant software: snapper NetworkManager dracut nvidia-dkms
Windows dual boot: Probably (Run as root to verify)
Failed units:
No, there is no dual boot.
Also, since the installer never asks which driver you’d like to use, I assume it just chooses the driver you selected at the bootloader selection. If that’s the case, I absolutely 110% selected the open source option.