Nvidia Blackwell/50xx Series Support

[joealden]

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Summary

As mentioned near the top of https://cachyos.org/blog/2502-february-release/, the new Nvidia cards require the use of the open kernel modules (https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules) instead of the "legacy" proprietary ones.

I just spent close to 2 hours (full of red herrings!) to discover that this was the reason my new 5090 system wasn't booting after installing the proprietary drivers - I guess our existing packaging logic doesn't account for this?

I tried running the .run file directly but stopped short of doing so when it asked for the kernel source tree.

Steps to reproduce

1. Have a 50xx series Nvidia GPU
2. Install Solus, reboot, update, reboot
3. Install 570.144 drivers via DoFlicky
4. Reboot, hangs (removing quiet and splash args via grub shows it halting after graphical.target targeted - switching to another TTY and running dmesg shows an explicit error message about the open kernel modules being required - nvidia-smi returns no devices were found).

Expected result

50xx series card work with the 570 drivers (I guess there will need to be conditional logic though to use the proprietary kernel modules for older cards - I think 10xx and before?)

Actual result

Hangs when rebooting after driver install

Environment

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Repo

Shannon (stable)

Desktop Environment

Budgie

System details

Not at my PC + would need to hand write it :) - can share if needed though

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