[SOLVED] GPU Driver Not Installing | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 6:35 AM

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My GPU can't seem to detect any driver. I've already tried downloading: "nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings" and after downloading them and rebooting the issue is still the same.

I also tried adding all nvidia packages to my conf file so they would run on boot, but nothing changed.

Any help is appreciated.

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I'm also on hyprland if that changes anything

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 7:29 AM

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I now got nvidia-open and still nothing changed after a reboot

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 7:29 AM

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what's your kernel?

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uname -r

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 7:39 AM

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6.15.2-arch1-1

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I looked around and it seems it might be a laptop issue and how the gpu is integrated.

novel aurora Aug 12, 2025, 7:50 AM

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rough cedar I looked around and it seems it might be a laptop issue and how the gpu is integ...

Which gpu

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 7:50 AM

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rtx 3050 laptop GPU

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laptop, might be a mux issue

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 lspci -k | grep -iEA3 'VGA|3D|RENDER|DISPLAY'

can you check this first?

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 7:56 AM

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sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 8:33 AM

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3050 is a NV170 chip and so requires just nvidia

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.aw nvidia

simple tuskBOT Aug 12, 2025, 8:34 AM

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sonic pond .aw nvidia

Nvidia

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Nvidia

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 8:34 AM

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rough cedar I now got nvidia-open and still nothing changed after a reboot

Just nvidia, not nvidia-open

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 8:38 AM

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sonic pond Just `nvidia`, not `nvidia-open`

same thing happened with nvidia, I get it, I reboot and nothing changes

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 8:38 AM

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Can you show the lspci command again after doing that?

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You should see a 3rd "kernel driver in use" line, like for the intel one above

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 8:43 AM

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Would it be easier if I deleted all drivers and tried installing them then?

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 8:48 AM

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Cleaning up is never a bad idea

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but that should have worked 🤔

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The system should be smart enough to ignore drivers it can't use (or isn't using at the time)

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:02 AM

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Yea idk, everywhere I look I seem to find simple solutions, but none of them work. This might make me want to switch back to windows, even though I got used to my linux environment

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:10 AM

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Loads of people use 3050s with no issue, I wouldn't give up yet

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Nice thing about Arch is that you get nothing by default, so you can completely safely and sanely completely remove all these drivers, and nothing will go wrong (besides not working with no drivers)

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Based on the wiki, nvidia is what you need

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:21 AM

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I removed all previous nvidia drivers and installed them again and still it didn't fix anything. Am I missing something obvious?

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:28 AM

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So you just have nvidia now?

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can you share a pacman -Qs nvidia?

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:29 AM

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reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 9:48 AM

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Make sure you didn't do a partial upgrade

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@rough cedar

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:48 AM

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I did sudo pacman -Syu or are you talking about something else?

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:49 AM

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does it say "nothing to do" now?

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:50 AM

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gives me this

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 9:50 AM

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Yeah that's what i meant
Hmm

pacman -Qlq nvidia | grep $(uname -r)

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If it didn't return anything, that's why your driver isn't loading

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:50 AM

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reef grail If it didn't return anything, that's why your driver isn't loading

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:51 AM

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rough cedar

This issue needs to be resolved

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 9:51 AM

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Yeah this is a partial upgrade issue

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:51 AM

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Good spot @reef grail 👍

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:51 AM

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rough cedar

mesa-git? That's from the AUR I assume?

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:51 AM

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sonic pond mesa-git? That's from the AUR I assume?

yea probably

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:52 AM

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That's blocking your Syu so probs should be removed

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 9:52 AM

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sudo pacman -R mesa-git

then

sudo pacman -Su mesa nvidia

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sorry typo

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:53 AM

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is this a lot of packages?

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:53 AM

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It is 😛

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:53 AM

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dam

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:53 AM

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When did you last Syu with no errors?

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 9:53 AM

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yeah you've been partially upgraded for a while now :v

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:54 AM

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honestly I think I was doing updates quite often but maybe never realised that it wasn't actually going thru

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so maybe like 2 months was the last succesful one

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 9:54 AM

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reef grail ``` sudo pacman -R mesa-git ``` then ``` sudo pacman -Su mesa nvidia ```

anyways, fixed all the mistakes, try to rerun, sorry

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:54 AM

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I like to -Syu right after an upgrade, to see "nothing to do". That means everything should be happy

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:55 AM

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Wait so what's the difference between -Syu and -Su?

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:55 AM

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If pacman ever fails then it is the same as running pacman -Sy which is a system breaking command and needs to be fixed asap

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https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/System_maintenance#Partial_upgrades_are_unsupported

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 9:55 AM

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-Su is upgrading without refreshing
useful if you wanna save time and have refreshed prior (i.e after a failed -Syu)

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 9:56 AM

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dam alright, thanks a lot already guys

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wait...

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is this bad?

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 9:57 AM

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no, this is expected

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there's an announcemnt in arch's website with instruction of fixing it

sonic pond Aug 12, 2025, 9:57 AM

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https://archlinux.org/news/linux-firmware-2025061312fe085f-5-upgrade-requires-manual-intervention/ 😊

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 10:02 AM

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OMG IT FIXED IT, THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 10:03 AM

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you're welcome 😄

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... solved

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rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 10:04 AM

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[SOLVED] GPU Driver Not Installing

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 10:04 AM

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rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 10:04 AM

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@reef grail thanks

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rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 10:05 AM

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@sonic pond thanks

vast hatchBOT Aug 12, 2025, 10:05 AM

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You're thanking too much ó_ò

reef grail Aug 12, 2025, 10:05 AM

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there's a cooldown :v

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 10:05 AM

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ill try again later

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thank you both again

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@sonic pond thanks

vast hatchBOT Aug 12, 2025, 10:09 AM

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You're thanking too much ó_ò

rough cedar Aug 12, 2025, 10:09 AM

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this guy

rough cedar Aug 15, 2025, 2:16 PM

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@sonic pond thanks

#[SOLVED] GPU Driver Not Installing