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I am cooked, chat. (Fuck Nvidia btw) (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by KuzhinierSileon@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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Edit: "Updating to the legacy 580xx drivers doesn't show me a desktop anymore", just in case someone else can stumble upon this by searching something similar.

Thanks to @deadcade@lemmy.deadca.de and @Ooops@feddit.org I did try fixing it out of curiosity. I had forgotten to install linux-headers. Hopefully someone who actually has the same problem as me, and needs to fix it, can use the tips given in the comments. On my end, I just had to install linux-headers and one reboot later it worked.

Always check if you have all needed packages and don't just "remember" that you had them installed.

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[-] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 1 week ago

Boot into a live boot install of some distro on a USB drive.

[-] KuzhinierSileon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I did try that as well. The legacy drivers did install from the tty, still the system doesn't see them, for lack of a better word. It is not a big issue though. I had already planned on upgrading since my current setup is very old.

Half of the new components have already arrived. The current PC will become a little home server running either Ubuntu or Debian most likely.

I just thought the situation was funny.

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 1 week ago

Did you also uninstall all of the components of the new driver as per the arch site?

https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/

Otherwise it's investigate from the tty as to what driver, if any is in use for the gpu pci device.

[-] KuzhinierSileon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yessir. I did remove everything that was from the 590 driver before I installed everything from the legacy 580xx. I might have to load a kernel module somewhere, maybe. But the effort is not worth the payout. My data on the machine itself is not unrecoverable thankfully.

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 1 week ago

I have a 3080, so 590 is fine for me. But, I'm sure the legacy one is a dkms. But the process of installing that should be done as part of the install. E.g. you install, reboot

What does lspci -k show for the card in terms of Kernel driver in use, and kernel modules? Also what does dkms status say?

If the module is installed and showing in dkms status and showing as used in lspci -k, it should be available for desktop environments.

I do agree in terms of effort when things go wrong though. I remember when I was a lot younger and I had no problems just sitting in front of my keyboard finding whatever the latest problem is. Now, I want to be doing things with my PC.

But, a bit of debugging might be worthwhile before doing a new installation.

this post was submitted on 11 Jan 2026
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