NVIDIA Driver problems (Surface Notebook) | Linux Mint Community🍵 | Page 1

sturdy prawn Jan 9, 2026, 3:55 PM

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I have this graphics card NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile] (Source inxi -Gxxx) in my Surface Laptop Studio 2.
I have a custom kernel installed (as by linux-surface project on GitHub) and unfortunately, installing different drivers didn't seem to have worked at all.
The 580 driver doesn't even install at all.

I haven't tried to use the regular kernel yet. (tbh I thought it was necessary to install it to get Linux to run on Surface devices)

If you have any idea how I can solve this, I'd be delighted to hear from you.

Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-P [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Microsoft
    driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen-13 ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2,
    DP-3, HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:a7a0 class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: NVIDIA AD107M [GeForce RTX 4050 Max-Q / Mobile]
    vendor: Microsoft driver: N/A arch: Lovelace pcie: speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 8
    bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:28a1 class-ID: 0302

More info:
uname -r -> 6.18.3-surface-2
Installed OS: Linux Mint 22.2

trail night Jan 9, 2026, 5:11 PM

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you gotta disable secure boot for those shitty drivers to load

faint kernel Jan 9, 2026, 5:28 PM

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#1429152383018991697 message

sturdy prawn Jan 9, 2026, 5:33 PM

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faint kernel https://discord.com/channels/628978428019736619/1429152383018991697/142917062836...

As I need secure boot due to dual booting windows (currently at least) I’ll try this

sturdy prawn Jan 9, 2026, 5:53 PM

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Unfortunately that didn’t work

faint kernel Jan 9, 2026, 5:55 PM

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try disabling Secure Boot. it shouldn't prevent Windows from loading, unless Bitlockered

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and if bitlockered, decrypt.

sturdy prawn Jan 9, 2026, 5:56 PM

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Yeah bitlocker is active…

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Ill see when i can do it but thanks

faint kernel Jan 9, 2026, 5:56 PM

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so u gotta go into windows first

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(with secure boot on)

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then decrypt the drive .

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