I’m trying to install the latest Nvidia driver on linux, but on all of my tries the screen went black. I have tried to install the nvidia driver on Fedora 41, Nobara 41, PopOS _Nvidia, PopOS, Garuda, Bazzite(KDE and Gnome) and Bazzite(KDE and Gnome)_nvidia. On all of those, with differents kernels I keep getting the Black screen. My GPU is an RTX 3060.
One thing that I notice is that on Bazzite_nvidia, on my UWHD monitor the video works, but when I plug the GPU on my UWQHD monitor it does not work. I notice that the screen resolution above 2560x1440 the screen goes black and stop to work. Does Nvidia keeps old drivers releases? So I can try to install them and see if it works?
Currently I’m using Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon with the following config:
System:
Kernel: 6.8.0-53-generic arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 13.3.0 clocksource: tsc
Desktop: Cinnamon v: 6.4.7 tk: GTK v: 3.24.41 wm: Muffin v: 6.4.1 vt: 7 dm: LightDM v: 1.30.0
Distro: Linux Mint 22.1 Xia base: Ubuntu 24.04 noble
Machine:
Type: Desktop Mobo: ASRock model: B450M Steel Legend serial:
uuid: UEFI: American Megatrends v: P10.20 date: 04/23/2024
CPU:
Info: 8-core model: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X bits: 64 type: MT MCP smt: enabled arch: Zen 3+ rev: 2
cache: L1: 512 KiB L2: 4 MiB L3: 32 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 2291 high: 3017 min/max: 2200/4662 boost: enabled cores: 1: 2200 2: 2200
3: 2627 4: 2200 5: 2191 6: 2200 7: 2196 8: 2200 9: 2200 10: 2196 11: 2200 12: 3017 13: 2200
14: 2200 15: 2200 16: 2439 bogomips: 108596
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 [GeForce RTX 3060 Lite Hash Rate] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia
v: 550.120 arch: Ampere pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 ports: active: none off: HDMI-A-2
empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 07:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2504 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.11 with: Xwayland v: 23.2.6 driver: X: loaded: nouveau
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa failed: nvidia gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: :0
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3440x1440 s-dpi: 109 s-size: 802x333mm (31.57x13.11") s-diag: 868mm (34.19")
Monitor-1: HDMI-1 res: 3440x1440 hz: 85 dpi: 109 size: 800x334mm (31.5x13.15")
diag: 867mm (34.13") modes: N/A
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 2 drv: swrast
surfaceless: drv: nvidia x11: drv: nvidia inactive: gbm,wayland,device-1
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 550.120 glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060/PCIe/SSE2
Audio:
Device-1: NVIDIA GA106 High Definition Audio vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
pcie: speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 8 bus-ID: 07:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:228e class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Starship/Matisse HD Audio vendor: ASRock driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 09:00.4 chip-ID: 1022:1487 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.8.0-53-generic status: kernel-api
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.5 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Info:
Memory: total: 64 GiB note: est. available: 62.72 GiB used: 4.72 GiB (7.5%)
Processes: 405 Power: uptime: 11m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep wakeups: 0
hibernate: platform Init: systemd v: 255 target: graphical (5) default: graphical
Compilers: gcc: 13.3.0 Client: Cinnamon v: 6.4.7 inxi: 3.3.34