This isn’t a guide, just something i think may help. To install Steam on an Arch-based distro in most of the cases a simple sudo pacman -S steam will do just fine.
The installation will ask you to select a valid vulkan package from a list. And in most of the cases that’s just fine… most of them.
Then you have your very “picky” old nvidia GPU which works only with a specific old nvidia driver and if you try to install anything else, there will be a conflict. Now you can try to remove the old (working) drivers and try your luck. But looking online i find a simple way to skip this passage and install Steam.
sudo pacman -S steam --assume-installed lib32-vulkan-driver
Nvidia supports 13 year old hardware and newest kernels with 580. At some point when running your 14 year old GPU one might consider just running the open source nouveau after all I assume that if you are running a 14 year old GPU you probably don’t need the utmost possible performance or you might consider getting a 4 year old AMD for $100 to replace your 14 year old nvidia.
Whilst it would be ideal for you not to have to look up anything ever nvidia will tell you which driver to use with your hardware
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/
If you are feeling frisky you could synthesize the already available data into a script that tells you the same thing. Linux Mint has a GUI for this which tells you which version is recommended for your hardware and your total commitment is clicking install and rebooting.
On my desktop with a 2060 it’s zero issue, but on my 940M hybrid video laptop it’s been spicy at times.
Usually updates without an issue, and the most I need to do is delay the
-settingspackage update until after the rest. (IIRC, see what I mean 😄).anyone knows what kinda driver that isn’t nouveau works for a GT750M? @mlg@lemmy.world which did you use for your 750ti?
got a Macbook Pro 2013 motherboard (i7-4850, 16 GB DDR3, GT750M 2 GB) that I’m thinking of turning into a desktop. no gaming intended, although welcome if possible (old titles).
try this one: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-470xx-dkms
Edit: there is a good link as well on that driver page that should help:
https://github.com/korvahannu/arch-nvidia-drivers-installation-guide
Depending how old the GPU is, Nouveau or the other one may lead to better results by now.
Fuck Nvidia and their powering AI systems for Netayahu’s genocide. Team Red all the way.
let’s not act like massive multinational corporations care about us, AMD is also ethically miserable, as is intel and everyone else.
There’s a big difference between “there’s no such thing as ethical consumption under capitalism,” and “these guys are making autonomous killing machines carrying out a genocide.”
I’m not pro-corporate anybody (see username), but if we can’t stick up a big middle finger to genocide profiteers, to whom can we?
Something something “Nazi Jew-Counting computers were supplied by IBM” I guess.
Based
I gave up on my old 970 and switched to an AMD card (you don’t even have to install the drivers for AMD GPUs, they’re just baked into the Linux kernel).
Turns out, performance is degraded for GTX 9xx series cards on Linux in general. I’m glad I discovered that because otherwise, I’d have probably thought I still had a driver issue even if I had gotten it working.
This is funny because I recently retired my 750ti which I had been using for server work and it ran great with the latest Nvidia driver (although I heard they’re gonna drop support soon and move the driver into a legacy package on rpmfusion).
The poor thing couldn’t even do H.265, had 2 Gb of VRAM, and needed specially compiled libraries for pytorch/tensorflow stuff because CM 5.0 was over 10 years ago, but it chugged along just fine.
I’m personally still on a 1660ti because despite OpenCL’s best efforts, CUDA has everyone by the balls, but now that I have a beefier server setup, I’ll probably go with AMD on my next build.
Assuming I’ll actually want to make a new build with these insane prices lol.
Soon? Support for Kepler was dropped years ago. Driver version 470 is the last one that supports the 700 series.
750 specifically was special because it was Maxwell architecture that Nvidia used on an “old” GPU brand line.
Hence the CM 5.0 instead of 3.0.
Mine was on the 580 something driver with CUDA 13.2 when I removed it from my server a couple of weeks ago.
Oh! That’s cool then. 580 is the last version that supports Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta, latest is 595. But yeah there were still releases in the 580 driver branch as recently as last month. So that’s cool.
I had a 750 years and years ago and had forgotten this. It felt like I was getting a kind of sleeper card at the time. Not that it was ever that powerful.
I have a GTX 980 Ti, so this is interesting. After toying with Arch for the past few days, I’m considering switching to AMD in the near future.
I’m lucky that I have the benefit to choose and can use another GPU brand that is open source and integrated to the kernel.
Haha I just spent the last 2 days trying to get nvidia to work on arch. Its my first time using arch but I did end up getting the drivers to work by removing the default one and installing the dkms drivers. Still a pain in the ass though.
Now see how long they keep working…
Is there an issue with dkms driver? It worked fine for me for over a year on my 3070 until I upgraded to AMD
I haven’t had one personally on two different systems with AMD cards.
Were you on a fresh install when you upgraded? I imagine there might be issues if there’s nvidia stuff loading on a system that no longer needs it (pure speculation).
Edit: I see some posts about dkms issues on AMD that look related to ROCm support. You no longer need to manually install amdgpu packages for this (but you used to), so that may also be a factor if you have conflicting packages. Probably depends on distro somewhat.
Oh. I was referring to the Nvidia dkms. I had absolutely no issues with the upgrade/changeover to AMD. Just put the new card in and it booted right up; didn’t even have to uninstall the Nvidia drivers.
Ah ok cool, I misunderstood
Been there, done that 👍
LOL Oofta, that was me years ago fighting for my life on an NVIDIA optimus GPU and trying to game on Linux. Total shitshow, I might have to abandon NVIDIA with my next upgrade when the prices come down, AMD is a bit better on Linux (my Ryzen is thriving and surviving on Garuda Linux). Can’t wait to get a full AMD build and not have to worry about NVIDIA making things weird.
Not to act smug but this is one area where I see akmod seem to work better than dkms which is weird considering they should both produce the same result.
The image for the post is amazing lmao
Thank You 🤗
What’s this meme from? Is it a babadook still?
Director: “Be a little shit”
yes
Thank you, good movie!
I have to reinstall the driver for my ancient 1070Ti pretty much every update.
Maybe dkms isn’t automatically building?
And yeah, like Jo4 suggested… you should try Cachy. Support is way better than stock Arch because all that is preconfigured.
Interesting. My 1070ti works fine after every update. I switched to CachyOS after it lost mainstream support, so maybe it’s that? Idk. Best of luck figuring that out, though, sounds awful.
I suppose I’m lucky. Catchy installed the Nvidia driver during the install and works/ updates without issue. I’ve got an older card, but not ancient. gtx1660
I did have issues when I first switched to Linux, but that was on Debian.
Currently “older cards” is 10xx series and earlier
This is a deliberate choice made by Nvidia with respect to their proprietary drivers, and has nothing to do with the operating system.
Cach6 was the smoothest experience for me. It can be difficult with other wldistros and also with cach6 probably.
Cachy kept freezing on me as did many other distros I was using. I found the common reason was due to Wayland and I’ve been on Linux Mint Cinnamon ever since with no issues like that. RTX 4080 Super
How recent was this? Cinammon only just got experimental Wayland support, AFAIK. Like, a month or two ago?
And Cachy KDE Nvidia Wayland was jank for a while (hence it defaulted to X11), but it works fine for me, for now.
I made this change like back in December or so. I had been distro hopping since moving to Linux in August of last year and was on a ton of distros with KDE that all had Wayland.
I moved to Mint Cinnamon because it seemed to be one of the few that wasn’t using Wayland and my issues stopped. I believe they did have experimental Wayland on one of the versions and I made sure not to use that one since I was under the impression it was due to Wayland and remember trying to decide between the other options they had.
It took me days to get my nvidia gpu working correctly. Due to being wayland I can’t use steamlink to stream to my Steam Deck and issues with VLC glitchy, pixeled playback. Otherwise everything works perfectly.
