I’ve got an nvidia card and I don’t want to use proprietary drivers cause they are completely broken for me, but I need vulkan for dxvk. I tried to install nvidia utils but that breaks my system. Where can I get nouveau vulkan?

  • potentiallynotfelixOP
    61·
    10 months ago

    I built my computer 8 years ago when I didn’t use linux and the gtx 960 was a new card. No need to shame me over not time traveling before choosing which gpu to buy.

    I’ve tried for a few months to get proprietary drivers functioning, but the issue is that nvidia drivers breaks my x11 configuration, and whenever I try to make a new x config, x11 just doesn’t start.

    • woobie@lemmy.world
      1·
      10 months ago

      How did it break config? Is this a dual or multi monitor setup?

      There have been issues with multi monitor placement, primary display setting etc that can get pretty fiddly to solve - seen it with different distros over many years of NVIDIA proprietary driver use.

      • potentiallynotfelixOP
        1·
        10 months ago

        Dual monitor, but when I install the drivers it turns to only one monitor at a low, non native resolution, and if I run X -configure or nvidia-xconfig it just won’t start X

    • xkforce@lemmy.world
      11·
      10 months ago

      I have an nvidia card too. As far as the graphics card driver not working, if you are running Ubuntu or something similar, the OS does not install all the dependencies for the graphics card driver correctly unless you force the installation of packages that were held back. And if you’ve made multiple attempts at this, you’re probably going to need to remove the prior installation attempts first.