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
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).
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.
Based
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.
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.
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.
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.
The image for the post is amazing lmao
Thank You 🤗
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…
Been there, done that 👍
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.
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.
Wow this is just what I needed I think
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.
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.
I just use TKG’s installer, it’s pretty much fixed all of my NVIDIA-related problems:
git clone https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all cd nvidia-all makepkg -siThe default is vulkan-beta drivers via DKMS. You may need to manually install
linux-headersbut you may already have it installed from other DKMS-related activities.
