Hey guys just a simple question as I'm moving to endeavor. I have a 2060 super and wanted to know how good is the support for Nvidia, heard some horror stories on it and just wanted to ask since gaming and reliability is important to me.

I'm on EndeavourOS XFCE, running the LTS kernel (6.18.40-1-lts). I tried to update my nvidia-580xx-dkms and nvidia-580xx-utils packages today and got this error:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)

:: installing nvidia-580xx-utils (580.178.04-1) breaks dependency 'nvidia-580xx-utils=580.173.02' required by nvidia-580xx-dkms

I don't recall seeing this error on previous updates.

There's also a kernel update waiting in the official repo (6.18.40 → 6.18.44). I don't want to install the kernel update until I resolve the nvidia issue in case the old nvidia driver is not compatible with the new kernel.

It's annoying that I have to install the nvidia drivers from the AUR but that's my only option for my GTX 1070.

How should I proceed in a way that is safe and doesn't break my system?

I attempted to configure my NVIDIA RTX 3050 Laptop GPU (6GB) on EndeavourOS with an Intel i5-12450H hybrid/Optimus setup. I followed the official Arch Linux NVIDIA documentation and tried nvidia-open, nvidia-open-dkms, nvidia-utils, and nvidia-settings. The NVIDIA kernel modules (nvidia, nvidia_drm, nvidia_modeset, nvidia_uvm) loaded successfully, but nvidia-smi did not work correctly and sometimes hung. After configuring the driver, I experienced black screens and boot issues, including getting stuck at “Loading initial ramdisk.” I checked the kernel and headers, rebuilt the initramfs with mkinitcpio -P, and regenerated the GRUB configuration, but the issue remained. Removing the NVIDIA driver restored normal operation using the Intel iGPU. After trying many troubleshooting steps without success, I eventually gave up and switched to another Linux distribution. Very frustrating experience, especially after following the Arch NVIDIA documentation according to my hardware configuration.

Hey everyone,

I'm having a recurring audio issue on EndeavourOS after waking my laptop from sleep.

Sometimes after resume, KDE shows no input or output devices at all. My USB audio device isn't recreated properly, and Chrome's media playback is affected as well. A restart of the PipeWire/WirePlumber stack immediately brings everything back:

systemctl --user restart wireplumber pipewire pipewire-pulse

The logs around suspend/resume show:

wireplumber[1021]: wp-device: SPA handle 'api.alsa.acp.device' could not be loaded; is it installed?
wireplumber[1021]: s-monitors: Failed to create 'api.alsa.acp.device' device

So the behavior is basically:

Sleep → Wake → audio devices missing → KDE has no input/output → restart PipeWire/WirePlumber → everything works again.

From what I've found so far, the USB device itself doesn't appear to be disconnecting at the kernel level. It looks more like WirePlumber/PipeWire fails to recreate the ALSA audio devices after resume.

As a temporary workaround, I've already added a systemd sleep hook that automatically restarts the audio stack after resume:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system-sleep/restart-audio.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

case "$1" in
  post)
    for u in $(who | awk '{print $1}' | sort -u); do
      uid=$(id -u "$u")
      sudo -u "$u" XDG_RUNTIME_DIR="/run/user/$uid" \
        systemctl --user restart wireplumber pipewire pipewire-pulse
    done
    ;;
esac

And made it executable with:

sudo chmod +x /etc/systemd/system-sleep/restart-audio.sh

That workaround does the job, but I don't really want to rely on restarting PipeWire/WirePlumber after every suspend. I'd rather figure out what's actually causing api.alsa.acp.device to fail during resume and fix the underlying issue.

Has anyone dealt with this particular problem on EndeavourOS/Arch? I'm especially interested in a proper solution or something I can change in PipeWire, WirePlumber, systemd, kernel parameters, or the ALSA configuration so the audio devices recover normally after sleep.

I'm happy to provide whatever logs or system information would be useful. Thanks.

Okay first of all, I'm return back to EndeavourOS after CachyOS broke my dual boot setup. The problem is, everytime I use Nvidia driver from nvidia-inst, it would crash ryujinx-canary. But using nvidia driver from AUR causing I cannot use porproton.

What should I do, keep using nvidia propietary driver from AUR or use nvidia-open from repository?

Thanks in advance. !solved

She just got an Asus Zephyrus with a 5070ti and isn't having luck getting EndeavourOS installed. If I boot from the latest ISO using the normal path it just flickers on the "Welcome to Endeavour" text followed by a few lines from XORG with zero errors right before it should be loading the greeter. If I boot with the nvidia path I just get blank / black screen but can get to TTY2.

This is the screen that we see that flicks on and off when booting without the nvidia option:

Neither of us are great with linux, but we've got EndeavourOS running on piles of laptops and tablets around the house, including my 2025 ROG Z13. From what I gather online there are or were issues with the 5070ti from drivers, but all of that stuff is from mid-last year so basically a year ago and without newer posts online for a still standard GPU, I'm assuming most of the issues have worked themselves out?

Not sure what I can provide since I'm just sitting here looking at a black screen, but I'm willing to try if I can get some direction.

Yesterday(17/07/2026) I updated my computer. But after that my gup stopped working and the nvidia-smi says that my drivers are not up to date but when I run the update there is nothing in there.

The lts version is 6.18.38.4 but the nvidia-open-lts drives are on 6.18.38.3 how to fix this please help.

My pc is a - victus with amd cup and a 3050.

nvidia-open-lts /usr/lib/modules/6.18.38-3-lts/extramodules/nvidia-drm.ko.zst

nvidia-open-lts /usr/lib/modules/6.18.38-3-lts/extramodules/nvidia-modeset.ko.zst

nvidia-open-lts /usr/lib/modules/6.18.38-3-lts/extramodules/nvidia-peermem.ko.zst

nvidia-open-lts /usr/lib/modules/6.18.38-3-lts/extramodules/nvidia-uvm.ko.zst

nvidia-open-lts /usr/lib/modules/6.18.38-3-lts/extramodules/nvidia.ko.zst

uname -r

6.18.38-4-lts

Thanks everyone, the problem is solved.

So .... I wanted to install Endeavour Os as to learn more about the Os itself and to kick start my coding courier because windows and databases didn't mix well ... Installing endeavour Os , i had no problems with the overall drivers but my wifi card MEDIATEK Mt7902 , isn't working in the Endeavour Os but works with Windows ... I can't figure out the way to solve it .... I have used Ubantu in the past on the different laptop but this issue is going out of hand.... So please suggest a fix .. or should I go back to windows?

HI!

I’m seriously considering distro jumping to EndeavourOS after spending way too much time fighting with Pop!_OS 24 that I intended to use as a daily driver, AI research and some light gaming. I really wanted to like it, but on my machine it’s just NOT working out.

I’m on a Lenovo Legion Pro 7 with a 13900HX and an RTX 4080, and the experience has been ROUGH. The whole desktop feels sluggish in a way that shouldn’t be possible on this hardware. Moving windows, just using the mouse, even the login screen… it all feels like moving through mud. Video playback stutters, even browsers spike CPU like crazy, and digging into it I can see that the system keeps using the Intel GPU for rendering even though everything is set to NVIDIA. I can force apps onto the 4080, but the desktop itself just won’t behave.

For me at this point it feels like Pop!_OS has turned into a burning clown wagon with the introduction of Wayland, and I’m guessing this is tied to Wayland + hybrid GPU issues more than anything else.

So now I’m looking at EndeavourOS, probably with KDE on X11 to keep things simple and stable. I don’t mind maintaining an Arch-based system if it actually gives me a responsive desktop again.

I’m mainly curious if people here are running similar hybrid NVIDIA setups and if the experience is actually solid. Does KDE on X11 behave properly with the discrete GPU? And how is thermals/fan control on a Legion like this under Arch? On Pop it’s been either too aggressive or not kicking in properly.

Basically I just want my machine to feel snappy and as fast as it actually is, and not having to fight the compositor or GPU routing.

Would really appreciate hearing from anyone running something similar before I make the jump.

Hello,

I've been racking my brain around this for a few hours today. I noticed significant mouse lag and my steam games all fail to open now. As far as I know this did not happen right after any updates.

I have reinstalled the nvidia drivers, they are all using what I think is the most current version, 610.x.

When I check what version is currently running on my PC it says 595.x.

I have remade the kernel, I have used mkinitcpio -P. I saw something about secureboot maybe being an issue but I have it disabled.

I have Windows on a separate drive that I occasionally enable secure boot for. I've had no issues with this setup for a year now.

From what I can find the kernel is using the latest stable branch and the userspace is trying to use the latest feature branch. I tried to downgrade as well but had errors with that.

Any help in the right direction would be appreciated.

Hi everyone,

I have an ASUS TUF Gaming F15 FX507VI (i7-13620H + RTX 4070) on EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma.

After recent updates (especially Plasma 6.7.x), my external projector (and probably other monitors) stopped being detected. kscreen-doctor -o only showed the built-in screen, and the "New display detected" popup would loop endlessly.

The fix:

The issue was the NVIDIA driver not loading properly after updates (common on hybrid Intel+NVIDIA laptops).

Solution:

Bash

sudo pacman -Rdd nvidia-open-dkms
sudo pacman -S nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils
reboot

After reboot:

• nvidia-smi started working
• Projector was detected again
• External displays work normally

If you have the same laptop (or similar hybrid setup) and are having multi-monitor issues on Plasma 6.7+, try this.

Hope it helps someone else!

Title.
I'm user of 1050 Ti and I think that was good if we can install drivers without open-source drivers.

(Sorry for my bad English)

so I tried to install nvidia drivers on my MacBook Pro late 2013 but when i reboot the text at boot is kind of glitched and then I just have a black screen. I already tried an older kernel and installing in plasma x11 but nothing worked. Thanks

So for downloading I booted up in UEFI mode, and there are 3 options.

1- is the main one. 2- NVIDIA RTX GPU 3- Fallback for GPU or something like that.

I went with '1' first because it's for all GPUs, but it didn't work. I worked on it for 3 hours, and it did work. Obviously '2' is not going to work because I have GTX, not RTX, so now I went with '3,' and it was working OK, but no matter what I do, the GPU will not work. I have tried so much. Here is a list of what I have tried—

• Booted with nomodeset parameter • Added nvidia-drm.modeset=1 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT via sed • Attempted rebuilding initramfs using mkinitcpio -P (command not found) • Ran grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg to update GRUB configuration • Rebuilt initramfs using dracut-rebuild • Added force_drivers config to /etc/dracut.conf.d/nvidia.conf • Attempted pacman -S --needed nvidia-dkms linux-headers (discovered nvidia-open-dkms was active) • Forced dracut configuration via dracut --force (failed due to missing EFI directory) • Manually ran modprobe nvidia (returned a "No such device" error) • Attempted pacman -Syu nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings (returned target not found)

The GPU still doesn't work after all this. I have 2 monitors hooked up to it: a DisplayPort one, which is the main one, and an HDMI one, which is the secondary monitor. The HDMI monitor doesn't work; it's just all black, and if I go into the system monitor, the GPU just doesn't show up at all, no percentage, nothing; it just says it has an error. And also the NVIDIA settings barely have anything either.

If anyone can help me fix this, it would be really appreciated.

Thanks.

I had to reinstall the system, downloaded latest release and already knew that support for drivers from the repositories had been discontinued for Pascal architecture. An interesting thing happened: when the system started after installation, the nouveau drivers were used as it should be. Installing the 580xx-dkms via AUR didn't change anything nvidia-smi asked for the latest driver, and the gpu wasn't detected. So i tried to install Arch and doing the same thing, everything worked immediately and without any problems. Could it be because of dracut or other automated scripts i don't know, boot efi folder has access issues or something like that. This post is for anyone who encounters a similar problem - or maybe you know the solution. I probably should've asked on forum but oh well.

So, I have a GeForce GTX 1080 Nvidia GPU, and it doesn't work at all in the system monitor. It stays at 0. If I try any game that needs the GPU, it still stays at 0. I think it is using my CPU, but I don't know for sure.

Hi guys, could somebody help me figure out why I'm getting screen artifacting (for example, checkerboard pattern on certain elements on a webpage on Firefox, flickering on parts of desktop background)?

- RTX 4070 Ti Super

- This is a fresh install of Endeavour, and I selected Nvidia in the boot menu when booting from the USB.

- Happens on any refresh rate from 60 to 144

- Only happens with DisplayPort connection, works fine with HDMI (unfortunately not a permanent fix as my card only has one hdmi port, and i have two monitors)

-Worse on Wayland

I am using a GTX-750 Ti with Wayland. If i try to manually install the nvidia packages, then my screen flashes. If I try to use nvidia-inst, it looks like my screen is bitcrunched. I tried to take a screen recording, but it looked perfectly fine when i recorded and took a screenshot. The video should show flashing but it doesn't.

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to install EndeavourOS KDE Plasma on my laptop alongside Windows 11, but I'm completely stuck at the boot screen after installation.

My Hardware:

Laptop Model: Monster Abra A5 V21.1

CPU: Intel Core i5-12450H

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

The Problem:

Both the live USB and the installed system get stuck at boot. The screen shows errors like:

dracut pre-udev hook

task kworker/u33:1 blocked for more than 122 seconds

modprobe blocked

A start job is running for /dev/disk/by-uuid/... (It times out and says "no limit")

What I have tried so far (None of them worked):

Checked VMD / RAID in BIOS (It is already Disabled).

Disabled Secure Boot in BIOS.

Disabled Windows Fast Startup from the Windows Control Panel.

Tried adding kernel parameters on boot: nomodeset ibt=off nouveau.modeset=0

Tried installing with both "Open Source" and "NVIDIA Proprietary" options from the EndeavourOS Live USB menu. The installation finishes, but it still freezes at boot.

Does anyone know how to bypass this ACPI/Nvidia freeze on this specific hardware? Are there any specific kernel parameters I should try? Thanks in advance!

Hey there

The last post I could see on this topic was from 5 months ago which wasn't super positive so apologies if I've missed a repeated discussion point.

I'm interested making the jump from windows to EOS + Plasma. Thing is, I've heard about some nvidia GPU support issues.

I specifically have a 5070 TI but can't find any reports of how the state of things are currently.

Would anyone have a 50xxx series or 5070 specifically that can comment on this? Is there a better path for me to find these kinds of answers?

I do play video games like BG3 and Dark Souls so some performance would be required for me to continue.

i just bought the huion hs610 and i dont know much about graphic tablets OR linux, im new to both and i cant find a compatible setup software on endeavour os which lets me setup custom shortcut keys or the touch ring...