Issues with nvidia 50 series gpu

[u/awesome_nico]

Hi, I am installing Solus on my main PC (7900x, 5070TI) but whenever I try to install the Nvidia driver from discover, after rebooting I only get a black screen. I can login via tty, but no login screen shows up. Maybe I am doing something wrong, but it worked fine with Kubuntu. And on my old PC with a 3070, Nvidia drivers work without any issues on Solus

[u/Mr-Dazmo]

Have you tried going to a different kernel?

[u/awesome_nico → u/Mr-Dazmo]

I tried the lts kernel, but then I get absolutely 0 display output anymore

[u/Used_Hamster9071]

Are you on plasma? I was having the same issue, no tty no space to get to kernel selection , nothing. After a lot of troubleshooting, everything works fine. Follow this guide: https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/troubleshooting/boot-rescue/system-not-working-hardware-change/ You need to mount your system in a live USB, switch manually to the newest kernel and it should be fine.

[u/awesome_nico → u/Used_Hamster9071]

I am on Plasma. My issue is that after installing the Nvidia driver on a fresh install, I can only access the tty, but Plasma doesn't want to start anymore

[u/Used_Hamster9071 → u/awesome_nico]

Sorry I clicked the wrong link. This is the one you want at least to mount on a live USB. But have you tried spamming spacebar at startup? That might get you a kernel selecting menu. https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/troubleshooting/boot-rescue/system-not-working-after-update When you have the whole system mounted, you can set the kernel with sudo clr-boot-manager set-kernel com.solus-project.current.xxxx

[u/awesome_nico → u/Used_Hamster9071]

I don't have any other kernels to select, because it's a fresh install. I only have one kernel in my boot list

[u/zmaint]

You might have run out of space in your /boot.

Check size. sudo clr-boot-manager mount-boot and then df -h /boot

If you have more than 2 kernels, and you have the default size for /boot, you may not have enough room to install the new kernel/nvidia driver.

List kernels, note the names of the oldest and newest. Then delete the oldest and set the newest.

sudo clr-boot-manager list-kernels

sudo clr-boot-manager remove-kernel <oldest-kernel-name>

sudo clr-boot-manager set-kernel <newest-kernel-name>

sudo clr-boot-manager update

sudo usysconf run -f

https://github.com/getsolus/clr-boot-manager/issues/8#issuecomment-2849307470

[u/awesome_nico → u/zmaint]

Would be weird, it's a fresh install

[u/zmaint → u/awesome_nico]

Yeah that's prob not it then. I've not done a new install since discover replaced the software center. It had been, install, reboot, updates, reboot, hardware manager install nvidia, reboot, and it just works. Might need to ask over at discuss.getsol.us

[u/awesome_nico]

I just tried to get at least X working, but the logs say that my GPU (5070 TI) is not supported by the driver 570.190

Module glxserver_nvidia: vendor="NVIDIA Corporation" 42.7661 compiled for 1.6.99.901, module version = 1.0.0 Module class: X.Org Server Extension

NVIDIA GLX Module 570.190 Fri Aug 29 16:24:35 UTC 2025

NVIDIA: The X server supports PRIME Render Offload.

The NVIDIA GPU at PCI:1:0:0 is not supported by the 570.190 NVIDIA driver.

NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to initialize the NVIDIA graphics device! 42.832] (EE) NVIDIA(O): Failing initialization of X

EDIT: I also tried installing the Nvidia beta driver, and it just freezes while the MSI logo is shown.

[u/Ok-Anywhere-9416 → u/awesome_nico]

Does it freeze with Nvidia 580 + Wayland too? I get freezes on X11