I can assist with NVIDIA drivers for Linux. Let me know what you need help with!
I can assist with NVIDIA drivers for Linux. Let me know what you need help with!
Oh and yes I know that arch linux might be a bit much for a beginner but I like tinkering with this stuff and as long as I still have windows on a drive I don't need to worry.
Littlemate1
08-09-2021, 03:16 PM #1Hey guys! Recently I decided to give linux a try and after a few hours of watching youtube videos about different distros and trying a few I grabbed an old unused ssd and installed arch linux on it. Now I'm struggling with the nvidia drivers for it. Before I explain further, please know that I'm a complete noob when it comes to linux and if this is really obvious, please don't hate me. I thought maybe someone can help me out in this forum, because googling gives me a lot of outdated information and I don't know what to do anymore. My setup: CPU: Intel i7-5960X Main board: Asus ROG Rampage V Extreme RAM: Corsair Dominator 64GB GPUs: 2x GTX1080 Founders edition in sli Boot SSD: Samsung 950 Pro NVME (This is the boot drive for my windows installation, I want arch linux to eventually live on here aswell) Storage SSD: Samsung 850 Pro (I'm using this one for programs and files I use frequently) Storage HDDs: 2x WD Blacks (These are for mass storage of video, music etc) Monitors: 2x Asus PA279Q (Right monitor is plugged into the top GPU via Display Port, Left Monitor is daisy chained to the right one) This is probably too much information, but whatever My use case: I use my pc for gaming of course, but also I'm a hobby web developer and I xampp installed along with composer , symfony-cli and some other things. Other than that I do very light photo and video editing and occasionally I use MS Office. What I had on windows and what I want to get on linux (if possible): - I "rerouted" the quick access directories like "Downloads", "Documents", "Pictures" etc to one of my HDDs (Right click > Properties > Location). This will probably be acheived on linux by mounting the drive at /mnt/home/ SOMEDIR (?) - I installed a lot programs on the 850 Pro, and basically all my steam library. If possible I'd like to keep steam on this drive on linux, programs aren't a big deal though. - I want to have my PHP IDE ( PHPStorm ), an apache server and composer on the linux machine. I actually tried this yesterday and everything worked fine except the symfony-cli gave me the error "No php binaries found", which makes me think that I need to add it to the path env variable. Maybe not but that's a solution I had to do on windows once. Doesn't really matter because this thread isn't about that What I did on my linux install: Basically I followed the installation guide on the arch wiki and I installed gnome with pacman -S xorg gdm gnome gnome-terminal nautilus gnome-tweaks gnome-control-center gnome-backgrounds adwaita-icon-theme arc-gtk-theme and rebooted. I don't really know all the right terms here I'm sorry if I get this wrong, but after that, the machine booted to the Login manager, I could log in to my account and got to the gnome desktop. All good so far. Then I tried to install the nvidia drivers according to arch wiki page regarding nvidia . I ran lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)" and got this output 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] Kernel driver in use: nouveau -- 02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] (rev a1) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GP104 [GeForce GTX 1080] Kernel driver in use: nouveau According to Nouveau wiki's code name page my cards have the code name NV134 (GP104). These are fairly new cards and not on in nvidia's legacy card list (ofc). I am now at the Installation step 3 on the wiki, so I ran pacman -S nvidia-lts nvidia-settings I read somewhere that if I used nvidia-lts during the installation process I should use nvidia-lts here. After rebooting the system I couldn't get back to the Login Manager, but instead I got back stuck at this terminal (Once again sorry if I'm using the wrong terms here) where you can press CTRL+ALT+F2 to log in as root or any user, the same terminal you see during the installation process of arch. This really confused me because I expected to have either no display output or weird resolutions/only one monitor/some kind of other issue but not that I would lose the desktop environment but oh well I kept going according to the wiki. On the NVIDIA/Tips and Tricks page i found that you can run nvidia-xconfig --busid=PCI:1:0:0 --sli=AA to generate the config file at /etc/X11/xorg.conf which i did and got this config file # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 435.21 Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Layout0" Screen 0 "Screen0" InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer" EndSection Section "Files" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "no" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "InputDevice" # generated from default Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Unknown" ModelName "Unknown" Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Device0" Driver "nvidia" VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Device0" Monitor "Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 Option "SLI" "AA" SubSection "Display" Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Trying to boot with this config didn't work either. If I try to verify that sli is enabled with nvidia-settings -q all | grep SLIMode I get No protocol specified Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused ERROR: The control display is undefined; please run `nvidia-settings --help` for usage information. Not sure what to do from here. I tried to run other distros like manjaro and popos off of a usb drive to see what they have installed but I couldn't really figure it out, and popos would even crash 2 seconds after loading the desktop every time. Sorry for this long post, but I would really appreciate your help on this Oh and yes I know that arch linux might be a bit much for a beginner but I like tinkering with this stuff and as long as I still have windows on a drive I don't need to worry.
ItsWillyyy
08-09-2021, 03:16 PM #2I attempted Pop OS and used their dedicated ISO for Nvidia users. It seems to be compatible with your GPU right out of the box. I’ve had success with it on my system when it had an Nvidia card, though I’m not entirely sure about the 1080 model. Overall, I suggest giving it a try.
augustb19907
08-09-2021, 03:16 PM #3I've checked the NVIDIA ISO and plan to retry now. Are there any BIOS configurations you're missing that might affect the setup? Everything seems to work on Windows.
ThatGirlIssa
08-09-2021, 03:16 PM #4SLI presents significant challenges on Linux with limited compatibility. Don’t assume it will function. Consider using the 19.04 Nvidia ISO, which is the latest version. For BIOS settings, you shouldn’t need to make any changes if Windows operates correctly. Edited September 12, 2019 by Twilight typo
TheBlackCatHD
08-09-2021, 03:16 PM #5Check the wiki's troubleshooting section beginning here. Also attempt to use just one graphics card initially; SLI can complicate things, so focus on getting one GPU running first.