Thank you for your answer, I have already consulted the wikipage, that’s how I have managed to turn on the free drivers. I runned both the commands you requested and here are the outputs:
# mhwd -l
e[1me[31m> e[m0000:23:00.0 (0300:10de:1b81) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-nvidia 2021.11.04 false PCI
video-nvidia-470xx 2021.11.04 false PCI
video-nvidia-390xx 2021.11.04 false PCI
video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-modesetting 2020.01.13 true PCI
video-vesa 2017.03.12 true PCI
e[1me[31m> e[m0000:1e:00.0 (0200:10ec:8168) Network controller Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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network-r8168 2016.04.20 true PCI
and
e[1me[31m> e[mInstalled PCI configs:
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NAME VERSION FREEDRIVER TYPE
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video-linux 2018.05.04 true PCI
video-nvidia 2021.11.04 false PCI
e[1me[31mWarning: e[mNo installed USB configs!
From this I concluded that I should test the
video-nvidia-470xx
instead of the
video-nvidia
driver that I have used so far.
I can confirm that this did the trick, i.e. gdm do not crash on boot and I can use the full 470 driver. So once again, thank you.
However, according to Appendix A. Supported NVIDIA GPU Products my GeForce 1070 is supposed to be supported by the 495 driver, so I still consider this just half a win.