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RabidRapids has Steam for Linux

20 Jul @ 6:17pm

Warning! NVIDIA drivers on Linux

This is not shown anywhere that I could find but if you’re using an NVIDIA card, it appears that the NVIDIA-dkms drivers are required otherwise steam will crashloop. I suspect this has something to do with proton & since I struggled with this issue for an entire day I thought it would be prudent to share my knowledge with the community.

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xdshot

20 Jul @ 8:48pm

You'd probably need it if you have custom kernel

RabidRapids has Steam for Linux

22 Jul @ 4:31pm

I don’t use a custom kernel & since my installation of arch is fairly standard, I posted this as a warning & as a resource as I was not able to find anything about this online.

Originally posted by xdshot:
You'd probably need it if you have custom kernel

Kobold

27 Jul @ 8:56am

No problem here with Manjaro/KDE and a 2080Ti

RabidRapids has Steam for Linux

28 Jul @ 9:45am

Huh okay. Must’ve been something else then & rebooting just fixed it for some reason

_@N+0n_n3trUnnER_ has Steam for Linux

28 Jul @ 6:14pm

Originally posted by RabidRapids:
I don’t use a custom kernel & since my installation of arch is fairly standard, I posted this as a warning & as a resource as I was not able to find anything about this online.

Originally posted by xdshot:
You'd probably need it if you have custom kernel

i am using pure arch with default kernel and nvidia-open driver, everything works fine with rtx 2070s

Originally posted by xdshot:
You'd probably need it if you have custom kernel

you can use it with default kernel, dkms is just a way to dynamically load drivers

Yoth

29 Jul @ 10:31am

Well, on Arch you can install either nvidia-dkms/nvidia-open-dkms or nvidia/nvidia-open. All four work and provide the NVIDIA-MODULE dependency. The dkms packages and the regular driver packages conflict each other and cannot be installed at the same time.

It is recommended to use nvidia-open.
If you use the linux-lts kernel you have to install nvidia-open-lts instead.

If for some reason you can't use the Arch standard or LTS kernels (linux/linux-lts packages), then you have to use the nvidia-open-dkms package. This is only the case if you use a custom kernel like linux-zen, linux-rt, linux-rt-lts, linux-cachyos or similar.

Be aware that the dkms packages in combination with a custom kernel may lead to compile errors during kernel update, which will leave you stranded on a login prompt instead of your desktop environment after the next reboot.

Last edited by Yoth; 29 Jul @ 11:17am