Change from Nouveau to Nvidia proprietary drivers?
Hello!
I recently installed Bazzite and I have an Nvidia Geforce GPU.
By now I know Linux and Nvidia isn't the best combination, but a new graphics card isn't an option for me right now.
After I had installed Bazzite, I found out that I have the Nouveau drivers already installed, but I want to change to the Nvidia drivers, however, I can't find out how. I already googled and looked on YT but I didn't find anything useful/anything I understand π
Shouldn't I be able to change the drivers via Bazaar or Warehouse or something like that? Or in my system settings?
I did download the drivers file from the official Nvidia website, however I read a dozen times that installing them manually is a bad idea.
So, how does it work on Bazzite?
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Rebase Guide - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
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You can rebase to a nvidia image
Solution
Rebase Guide - Bazzite Documentation
Bazzite is a custom image built upon Fedora Atomic Desktops that brings the best of Linux gaming to all of your devices.
What's your hardware and which image are you currently on? Try
fastfetch in a terminal
and you're right, installing the nvidia drivers from the website is not recommended, high chance to break your system
*Almost guranteed chance to break your system
Bazzite might be the only one resistant to its evils
thanks for the link, reading it right now!
I read through the guide and then looked for "bazzite nvidia image" and found this on the github
That would be what I need? However, what's up with the "unverified-registry" part here? The example in the Rebase Guide read a bit differently.
There's open and not open and I believe you'll need to pick depending on the age of your card.
4060TI uses open
It's recommended to use bazzite rollback helper
brh in terminalAlso known, to my glee, as "bruh"
Or
bruh lolI have to fight so hard to not reply with just "bruh" when someone asks for rebasing help
doing it right now :)
thanks for pointing me in the right direction
(and if the 4060TI really needs open, well fuck xD But then I know what's going on^^)
The situation with nvidia drivers is confusing tbh
The completely open driver is nouveau/NVK and isn't recommended
Then there's proprietary in 2 flavors
Open and closed, 16xx /20xx and later can(should? ) use open. But in reality only the kernel part is open
Basically the "open" is they've opened the kernel loading mechanism to open source and it supports newer cards.
The non "open" is the legacy driver which is a pain in the arse because zilch of it is open.
And noveau is the open as in full open source.
So you'll want Nvidia-Open for cards 1xxx series and newer.
Cards before that the non open will usually work unless it's ancient
And noveau is the "it works" option, but doesn't work for much else yet since it's been an entirely reverse engineered thing. It's more good at getting nvidia cards to do -anything- before you have the official drivers operating.
Without Noveau you used to not even be able to boot with nvidia cards without workarounds.
(But that was early 2010s)
I lived through those times. Irritating as hell
So biggest tldr:
- Nvidia-open for 16xx and above
- Noveau is always there
- Nvidia for cards older than 1xxx or the rare few of that age that might not work
Nvidia is phasing out the 7,9, and 10 series driver support so eventually all supported cards will use open, and bazzite will need to freeze the driver (last one for legacy cards) on the non-open image to 580 until eventually that's no longer possible
I think it's actually 16xx and above
That's it
Lemme edit the tldr
huh
interesting
first, thanks again for the info.
Second; when I downloaded bazzite I filled in the relevant information and then it told me to download this one here, so that is what I started with:
but when I tried to use nvidia software, it told me that I don't have nvidia drivers?!
Freaky that you aren't on it then.
I wonder if the page hiccuped on your net for some reason or gave you the wrong ISO because it didn't update or...something net related.
But yeah for you nvidia-open
(And totally switch to amd later :3)
Don't rebase to unverified though
ok :3 Let's see how it'll work out
Yea it's not the first person i've seen end up on the wrong iso, i wonder what" s up with that
If the button dynamically changes the button URL I could see a bad net connection causing a hiccup.
I'd say maybe the website is having issues or the wrong hosting link but that all seems unlikely
alright, I'm on nvidia-open now and it works fine, including the nvidia software
Nice! :3_:
Would you mind marking this thread as solved? We want to help other people in the future with the same issue find answersπ
Do you remember what you put into the image picker the first time, when it gave you the incorrect iso?
I wonder if you have to select the options in a specific order or something
IIRC:
First: "What hardware are you using?" <- Desktop
then before I answered what GPU I have I went to the third point
"What desktop environment do you prefer?" <- KDE (Like SteamOS's Desktop)
and then I went to the second point
"Who is the vendor of your primary GPU?" <- Nvidia (RTX Series | GTX 16xx Series+)
and then the fourth
"Do you want Steam Gaming Mode?" <- No, I want a traditional desktop experience
I did it a again now and it works this time
hmmmmmm
Yeah my only guess is a freak net issue
Maybe something didn't load or...it's a confusing thing to figure out
I mean hey Stella go open dev tools and limit your speed to dialup and see what happens if you interact too quickly :P
mmmm
I'm pretty sure I had all the correct things chosen when I clicked on download, however, maybe I misclicked once or twice before and corrected it immediately afterwards?
Could that have lead to confusion on the websites part?
i went to the website with low-tier mobile device emulation and it still gave me correct iso :ThonkFedora:
oh??
i think i broke the image picker lol
i think what causes it is changing the first dropdown after you have already selected your GPU vendor
it doesn't refresh it properly
my god what is this,
bazzite-deck-deck
tf
lol come take my job in QA.
You've done the breakening of it
XD