Howto install NVIDIA drivers for Quadro RTX 4000

theking2

I happen to upgrade my Windows 10 installation to Solus Budgie. It has a NVIDIA Quadro RTX4000. After much trial and error I was able to setup Solus using the iGFX. That works. Now I want to switch back using the RTX4000 as it has USBc and DP and I have a wide screen DP monitor and a FHD USBc monitor that I want to use.

What would currently be the procedure to install working NVIDIA drivers on Solus?

trinajstica

theking2

doflicky is it

diagnostics0

You will want to use DoFlicky to install the drivers.

theking2

diagnostics0

Who comes up with these names 😂

Doflicky it is. But how to install? It is not in Software Center.

alfisya

https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/hardware/#proprietary-drivers

trinajstica

theking2

hardware drivers, it is installed allready

theking2

trinajstica Actually Hardware Drives is not or no longer there. On solus 4.7 here now

sheepman4267

FYI, this process will be different after the new epoch is rolled out to all users, and the new process is already available. If you have GNOME Software or Discover installed, you should find a hardware drivers section available in those software centers which allows you to install relevant drivers for your system.

Once the epoch is done, DoFlicky and the old Solus Software Center will both be removed. I'll miss the fun name, but the new system is more functional and streamlined 🙂. For now, though, the old process will work just fine (and no action is required if you already have drivers installed). I just thought it would be good to make this upcoming change known.

penny-farthing

sheepman4267

Just a question (I'm a Budgie desktop user).

When we click on the “Hardware Drivers” section in Discover, 4 elements are listed:

However, I seem to remember that in DoFlicky, there was a package "NVIDIA Graphics Driver - 32bit libraries for NVIDIA Binary Driver" recommended for video games.
It does not appear in the list proposed in the "Hardware Drivers" section, but you can find it by searching for withthe word nvidia:

So could it be possible to also display this package in this section please?
Thanks by advance for your feedback.

theking2

Thanks to all. Hardware drivers it is than.
I hate to break my now (almost) perfectly working system on sunday evening. Would klicking Install break anything?

SethStorm666

theking2

Properly not, but with Nvidia drivers you never know. If you decide to install the driver and want to game, remember to tick 32-bit driver.

theking2

Thanks.
Doflicky is installed but no longer in the menu. How do I start doflicky again?

EDIT: Search for Hardware Drivers. (why make it easy when you can make it hard...🤷)

Installing now... if you don't here from my my system died....

theking2

theking2 Installing the drivers killed my Audio. Totally unrelated as I use the internal analog audio channel. After installing the nvidia drivers and connecting my DP monitor to the GPU I had

an image the first time around but garbled audi
did a reboot an had no image (no DP signal)
did a hard reset, because what else could I do: both IGFX and GPU had no signal and after that nothing changed
did a power cycle. didn't help either
reconnected to internal DP and a power cycle and everything is there again.

<rant-mode="on">
These drivers just suck. Why is this so difficult to do? I had windows 10 running on this exact same machine, the last four years without any problem. Why can't we get x11 drivers correct let alone wayland? Why is GNU Linux still such a mess? Why is installing a graphic driver killing audio?
</rant-mode="off">

lspci

...
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104GL [Quadro RTX 4000] (rev a1)
01:00.1 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation TU104 HD Audio Controller (rev a1)
...

and dmesg:

[Sat Oct 25 15:22:08 2025] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:08 2025] nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel.
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:08 2025] Disabling lock debugging due to kernel taint
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:08 2025] nvidia: module license taints kernel.
...
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:08 2025] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 238

[Sat Oct 25 15:22:08 2025] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:08 2025] NVRM: loading NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module  570.190  Fri Aug 29 16:47:46 UTC 2025
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:08 2025] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA Kernel Mode Setting Driver for UNIX platforms  570.190  Fri Aug 29 16:18:24 UTC 2025
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:08 2025] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00000100] Loading driver
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:08 2025] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for nvidia/570.190/gsp_tu10x.bin failed with error -2
...
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:09 2025] i915 0000:00:02.0: [drm] [ENCODER:105:DDI A/PHY A] failed to retrieve link info, disabling eDP
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:09 2025] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:09 2025] ACPI: video: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes  rom: no  post: no)
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:09 2025] input: Video Bus as /devices/LNXSYSTM:00/LNXSYBUS:00/PNP0A08:00/LNXVIDEO:00/input/input6
...
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:09 2025] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 for 0000:01:00.0 on minor 1
[Sat Oct 25 15:22:09 2025] nvidia 0000:01:00.0: [drm] Cannot find any crtc or sizes
...

I think I got all video related ones.

theking2

Oh adn linux-driver-management status gives


 ╒ Hardware Platform
 ╞ Platform Vendor : Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
 ╘ Platform Model  : Z170X-Gaming 7

NVIDIA Optimus

 ╒ Primary GPU (iGPU)
 ╞ Device Name   : HD Graphics 630
 ╞ Manufacturer  : Intel Corporation
 ╞ Product ID    : 0x5912
 ╞ Vendor ID     : 0x8086
 ╞ X.Org PCI ID  : PCI:0:2:0
 ╘ Boot VGA      : yes

 ╒ Secondary GPU (dGPU)
 ╞ Device Name   : TU104GL [Quadro RTX 4000]
 ╞ Manufacturer  : NVIDIA Corporation
 ╞ Product ID    : 0x1eb1
 ╞ Vendor ID     : 0x10de
 ╞ X.Org PCI ID  : PCI:1:0:0
 ╘ Boot VGA      : no

LDM Providers for TU104GL [Quadro RTX 4000]: 1
 -  nvidia-glx-driver

trinajstica

theking2

Use gnome-software if you are on gnome or discover for plasma or other desktops, search for nvidia driver there

nolan

Images for reference:

Discover Used for every other edition of Solus
Search for Hardware Drivers in the category section.

Gnome Software used for Solus Gnome.
I don't use Gnome but there should be a section for hardware drivers.