Open Source Drivers for Nvidia Cards are still very early and very limited. The best way to go forward would most likely be to solve whatever conflict exists on your system with the proprietary drivers and then to use those. Or to get a AMD graphics card.
this post was submitted on 12 Feb 2024
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I guess I underestimated just how early the drivers were. I guess my best option is to try and get proprietary drivers working
It's called NVK, but it's in very early stages right now.
Proprietary it is then. Thank you
Also I'm pretty sure NVK only works on 2000 series and up anyway, since Nvidia only released the blobs for those cards.
Basically, gotta deal with proprietary drivers until you eventually choose to upgrade the GPU in however many years, when you should probably choose AMD if running Linux is important to you. Nvidia as a company is just not friendly to the Linux world, and has never been friendly.
You fool! You own an nvidia card! The nouveau driver WILL result in 1/30th the fps that the proprietary card will if it works at all with vulkan.
In other words, it'd be fucking unplayable.
Also "it broke my system" is vague. What did you do and what was the exact result?
I built my computer 8 years ago when I didn't use linux and the gtx 960 was a new card. No need to shame me over not time traveling before choosing which gpu to buy.
I've tried for a few months to get proprietary drivers functioning, but the issue is that nvidia drivers breaks my x11 configuration, and whenever I try to make a new x config, x11 just doesn't start.
How did it break config? Is this a dual or multi monitor setup?
There have been issues with multi monitor placement, primary display setting etc that can get pretty fiddly to solve - seen it with different distros over many years of NVIDIA proprietary driver use.
Dual monitor, but when I install the drivers it turns to only one monitor at a low, non native resolution, and if I run X -configure or nvidia-xconfig it just won't start X
I have an nvidia card too. As far as the graphics card driver not working, if you are running Ubuntu or something similar, the OS does not install all the dependencies for the graphics card driver correctly unless you force the installation of packages that were held back. And if you've made multiple attempts at this, you're probably going to need to remove the prior installation attempts first.
Yeah I've installed arch over 30 times. I memorized the install process by now
Try installing nvidia-dkms. It is better integrated into the kernel, so you may have better luck with it. Also make sure to read the xorg page on the arch wiki if you are going to stick with arch.