How to install the nvidia 575.51.02 Beta Driver for RTX 5060 TI

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Cheers,

this is what worked for me. I am on X11 and the 6.12 Kernel. Before you start, use a tool like Timeshift, Snapper, or make a full system backup! If you are not able to restore your system without a GUI, don’t try this.

  1. Update and back up your system
  2. Find your currently installed NVIDIA packages and remove them:
    pacman -Qs nvidia | grep 570
    note: libxnvctrl works with the 575 driver
sudo pacman -Rdd nvidia-utils
sudo pacman -Rdd nvidia-dkms
sudo pacman -Rdd  nvidia-settings
sudo pacman -Rdd lib32-opencl-nvidia
  1. Install the NVIDIA Open Beta driver (still proprietary):
    yay -S nvidia-open-beta-dkms opencl-nvidia-beta lib32-opencl-nvidia-beta nvidia-settings-beta nvidia-utils-beta lib32-nvidia-utils-beta
  2. Add nvidia_drm.modeset=1 to the kernel command line in GRUB, and rebuild GRUB
  3. Optional: delete xorg.conf
  4. Reboot
  5. If it didn’t work:
    First place to look:
    # sudo dmesg | grep nvidia
    This is how my ouptut looks:
[    4.562097] nvidia: loading out-of-tree module taints kernel.
[    4.562104] nvidia: module verification failed: signature and/or required key missing - tainting kernel
[    4.653015] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 238
[    4.655133] nvidia 0000:2b:00.0: vgaarb: VGA decodes changed: olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=none:owns=none
[    4.711148] nvidia-modeset: Loading NVIDIA UNIX Open Kernel Mode Setting Driver for x86_64  575.51.02  Release Build  (archlinux_builder@archlinux)  
[    4.716715] [drm] [nvidia-drm] [GPU ID 0x00002b00] Loading driver
[    6.652760] [drm] Initialized nvidia-drm 0.0.0 for 0000:2b:00.0 on minor 0
[    6.652850] nvidia 0000:2b:00.0: vgaarb: deactivate vga console
[    6.805776] fbcon: nvidia-drmdrmfb (fb0) is primary device
[    7.079707] nvidia 0000:2b:00.0: [drm] fb0: nvidia-drmdrmfb frame buffer device

Or check
# lsmod | grep nvidia
Mine are:

nvidia_uvm           4022272  0
nvidia_drm            147456  16
nvidia_modeset       2191360  23 nvidia_drm
drm_ttm_helper         16384  2 nvidia_drm
video                  81920  1 nvidia_modeset
nvidia              12972032  373 nvidia_uvm,nvidia_modeset

Good Luck!

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