[SOLVED] Old GTX1080 graphics card and NVIDIA drivers.

oysteijo · 2026-05-08 22:42:53

Hi,

I'm trying to reanimate an old PC her and I have an GTX 1080 card in this. So, as I understand, I need the AUR nvidia-580xx-utils and nvidia-580xx-dkms packages.
I got these packages and they build and I install them. I'm blacklisting the nouveau drivers and I rebuild the initramfs.

and I reboot.

However, whatever I do it looks like the driver is still nouveau and not nvidia. What am I doing wrong. Am I missing an important step?

-Øystein

Last edited by oysteijo (2026-05-09 07:33:28)

seth · 2026-05-09 06:46:20

nvidia-580xx-utils already blacklists nouveau, but you'll have the latter the initramfs (instead of the blacklist) via the kms hook.

oysteijo · 2026-05-09 07:21:45

I read in some other thread that I should remove kms from my hooks. Is that right? This is what I have:

[oystein@jupiter ~]$ grep ^HOOKS  /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
HOOKS=(base systemd autodetect microcode modconf keyboard sd-vconsole block filesystems fsck)

Then I do:

sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo reboot

No NVIDIA.

So, should I add kms to my HOOKS again?

seth · 2026-05-09 07:25:37

dkms status

Do you have the linux-*headers package for your kernel?

Edit: in doubt please post your complete system journal for the boot:

sudo journalctl -b | curl -s -H "Accept: application/json, */*" --upload-file - 'https://paste.c-net.org/'

Last edited by seth (2026-05-09 07:26:39)

oysteijo · 2026-05-09 07:32:42

Ah! Thank you so much!
Installing the headers. That was the missing step.

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[SOLVED] Old GTX1080 graphics card and NVIDIA drivers.

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