Hi everyone!

During Christmas I installed Solus 4.3 on my HP Omen 15 laptop (AMD/Nvidia system). After installing proprietary for Nvidia I was not able ut use render offload and nvidia-settings, so I asked for help in the Nvidia forums. It was suggested that I embed the Nvidia drivers into the initrd.

I have no experience with initrd, but I've discovered that different Linux distributions use different tools for this like dracut and update-initramfs. None of them seem to come with Solus, but I've also discovered a folder called /etc/dracut.conf.d. By the way, here is a post on the Nvidia forums which explains how to embed the driver into the initrd with dracut.

Is it correct to install dracut and use the recipe in the linked post to do this right in Solus, or should I use another tool?

    Solus doesn't generate initramfs on user systems. We ship a single, pre-built initrd with each version of the kernel.

    5 days later

    So this problem is not solvable the way it was suggested on the Nvidia forums. That's a shame.

    Seems I have to use another distribution in order to get my Nvidia GPU working. Hopefully, I'll be back to Solus in the future. Until then, good luck and sayonara.

    camemil After installing proprietary for Nvidia I was not able ut use render offload and nvidia-settings,

    I'm not convinced DataDrake told you this was unsolvable but she did answer your question about intrd.
    Read some Nvidia threads here. Maybe your rig is too new and you can confirm this is unsolvable? Maybe you have the wrong drivers? Maybe you bypassed DoFlicky? I didn't think the embed method in your links is the answer either.
    Seems premature to call unsolvable. Two cents.