Solus not recognising RTX4070

zebedeeboss

The solus driver installer does not recognise my RTX4070. I have found (or more correctly Dolphin_Oracle found) that this is due to Nvidia providing an incorrect id for my specific Zotac nvidia card. If anyone else is suffering the same problem with their 40 series Nvidia cards just install nvidia-glx-driver-current and all is right in the land of the burning Bright Solus.

Caveat - this solution worked for me using gnome and getting put into "terminal" mode on reboot. I am still re-learning solus so if you need any terminal outputs to clarify. Please ask.

Congrats to the Team

zebedeeboss

Update:
ran into another problem I am not able to resolve. I can reboot with no issues.
However, the minute I alter settings in nvidia-settings and save them. The system just hangs on boot.
I had to delete /etc/X11/xorg.conf
I am changing ViewPortIn: and Panning: as my monitor can do picture by picture in 4k mode.
I can get by, by doing this manually, each time I log in. As it only takes a min or two, but it would be nice to find a permanent solution.

Thanks in Advance... Zeb

zebedeeboss

update on working solution (ps I added an additional monitor)

#!/bin/sh -e # #This script is to bypass the nvidia blues and the monitors not starting at correct size or position on reboot sleep 5 nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="DP-4: nvidia-auto-select +0+0 {ForceCompositionPipeline=On, ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}, DP-0: 1760x1440_120 +0+2160 {viewportin=2640x2160, ForceCompositionPipeline=On, ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}, DP-2: 3360x1440_120 +2640+2160 {viewportin=5040x2160, ForceCompositionPipeline=On, ForceFullCompositionPipeline=On}"

giving this script "execute as a program" permissions, I can manually run this and everything gets set correctly.

Now to work out how to run this automatically on startup.
Probably not the most elegant solution but it works for me 🙂
not marking this solved yet, in case someone comes along with a better solution.