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Le0Pole

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Registered: 2026-04-19

Posts: 2

[SOLVED] Issues with installing Nvidia's DKMS drivers

I just today installed Arch linux on my main PC (I have installed it before on a laptop), I have KDE Plasma with wayland, and I noticed that the CPU usage was going crazy, turns out I had no drivers for my Nvidia GPU (1070 Ti) so I went to install them.
Long story short I am unable to download the Nvidia package with pacman (I still have no idea why) so then I learned about DKMS Nvidia drivers and went to install them.

The issue:
DKMS Drivers compile and when I run `sudo dkms status` it says that they are compiled:

[PC@archlinux 6.19.11-arch1-1]$ sudo dkms status
nvidia/595.58.03, 6.19.11-arch1-1, x86_64: installed

But when I go to create the initial ramdisk environment using `sudo mkinitcpio -P`
the Nvidia drivers are not included.

here is the output:

[PC@archlinux ~]$ sudo mkinitcpio -P
[sudo] password for PC: 
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
==> Using default configuration file: '/etc/mkinitcpio.conf'
  -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> Starting build: '6.19.11-arch1-1'
  -> Running build hook: [base]
  -> Running build hook: [systemd]
  -> Running build hook: [autodetect]
  -> Running build hook: [microcode]
  -> Running build hook: [modconf]
  -> Running build hook: [kms]
  -> Running build hook: [keyboard]
  -> Running build hook: [keymap]
  -> Running build hook: [sd-vconsole]
  -> Running build hook: [block]
  -> Running build hook: [filesystems]
  -> Running build hook: [fsck]
==> Generating module dependencies
==> Creating zstd-compressed initcpio image: '/boot/initramfs-linux.img'
  -> Early uncompressed CPIO image generation successful
==> Initcpio image generation successful 

I have tried a lot, and I have included the nvidia, nvidia_modeset, nvidia_uvm, nvidia_drm modules in the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf file

# MODULES
# The following modules are loaded before any boot hooks are
# run.  Advanced users may wish to specify all system modules
# in this array.  For instance:
#     MODULES=(usbhid xhci_hcd)
MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm) 

After almost 5 hours of struggling with this I am out of ideas, so I am open to suggestion and help.

Last edited by Le0Pole (2026-04-19 18:31:29)

ajgringo619

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Registered: 2023-05-06

Posts: 44

Re: [SOLVED] Issues with installing Nvidia's DKMS drivers

Your GPU is not supported by the latest Nvidia drivers. Try the 580 branch from the AUR.

Le0Pole

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Registered: 2026-04-19

Posts: 2

Re: [SOLVED] Issues with installing Nvidia's DKMS drivers

Oh my day, IT WORKS! Thank you so much!