I'm A newcommer and I have successfully installed nvidia 470 driver

[AmerXz]

I’ve heard of the distro from lunduke and I was willing to test it but I heard that nvidia 470 and other legacy drivers are not supported on this distro but I needed them for my nvidia kepler optimus gpu to work properly

So I installed ROME edition then tried to patch the 470 driver by myself using some community patches I found all needed patches from cachyos here

I installed egl-wayland and libglvnd because the installer requires these two packages to be there

installed kernel-headers kernel-source & kernel-devel

and applied needed patches after unpacking my previously downloaded nvidia.run with --extract-only argument

I applied the patches using patch -p1 -i /path/to/file.patch you should do cd /path/to/extracted/nvidia-470/ others needes you to do cd /path/to/extracted/nvidia-470/kernel I don’t remember extactly which ones required me to be inside kernel directory and made the dkms.conf inside kernel files dkms.txt (996 Bytes) like what’s in the attachment

after that I made sure that nouveau is blacklisted and then did sudo ./nvidia-installer --no-cc-version-check installed the driver and BOOM It’s working on kernel 6.13.0-desktop-0.rc4.1omv2490

lasty I had two small issues tho

first one was that sddm did not appear at all and I had to switch to tty in order to restart sddm for it to appear

the second one “It might be because I don’t have much experince with the distro” but I needed to install kernel-headers for 6.12 kernel which I didn’t find packages related to them and I’m a bit lazy now to search on the web

but at least the driver has worked properly

so thanks for this great distro and I hope this gets useful to someone

[rugyada]

@AmerXz

@AmerXz

but at least the driver has worked properly

Cool!

[AmerXz]

I also forget to mension the patches that i used in order to make the driver work

I will make a list with the respective order

0001-Fix-conftest-to-ignore-implicit-function-declaration.patch

0002-Fix-conftest-to-use-a-short-wchar_t.patch

0003-Fix-conftest-to-use-nv_drm_gem_vmap-which-has-the-se.patch

clang.patch

nvidia-470xx-Enable-modeset-by-default.patch

kernel-6.10.patch

kernel-6.12.patch

kernel-6.13.patch

[AmerXz]

sddm issue is fixed now .

it seems that the issue was because sddm was defaulting to wayland session so I edited /etc/sddm.conf and I added DisplayServer=x11 Under [General]

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