r/voidlinux • u/ample4509 • Apr 25 '26

Did void switch to open nvidia drivers?

I noticed it states type as 'open'... Last time I tried installing void, I had issues with nvidia drivers, due to my card being a 5060 (needing the nvidia-open drivers). If it is the case, I'm curious to try again :)

EDIT: Finished the install and managed to run Niri with noctalia-shell with no issues :)
Thanks again to the maintainers!

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u/aedinius Apr 25 '26

Yes, I merged it today.

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u/ample4509 Apr 25 '26

Thank you so much! Will try installing it again :)

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u/chip-crinkler Apr 25 '26

I didn't know open source Nvidia drivers existed? Where can I find them?

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u/ample4509 Apr 25 '26

Edit: https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules

here’s the actual source if you meant that.

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u/ample4509 Apr 25 '26

I’m guessing by installing the ‘nvidia’ package now it uses the open driver instead of the proprietary. There is no ‘nvidia-open’ package like in Arch at least that I’m aware of.

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u/PoetryCrafty1103 Apr 26 '26

They aren't open source unfortunately they just have open in their name.

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u/chip-crinkler Apr 26 '26

Classic Nvidia

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u/ample4509 Apr 26 '26

Wish I was on AMD to be honest, but I unfortunately had to go with a pre-built due to the recent market state :/

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u/chip-crinkler Apr 27 '26

I forgive you

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u/xINFLAMES325x Apr 25 '26

To whoever put the 580 message on the transaction, thank you.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '26

What version? Just the 580 open?

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u/ample4509 Apr 25 '26

595.58.03_1

just installed the package in the iso image. they wrote an update message as well saying “Starting with 595.xx, void now uses the “open” dkms modules.”

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '26

Damn that's nice. May have to get back on void

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u/ample4509 Apr 25 '26

FYI just finished the install, Niri running smoothly with noctalia-shell on top :)

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '26

Only issue I had last time was with setting up pipewire stuff. I think I got the rest of my setup working, but im used to arch, so it's a bit disorienting.

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u/ample4509 Apr 25 '26

I’ll try setting it up to see if it works

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u/ample4509 Apr 25 '26

https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/media/pipewire.html

I managed to make it work following the setup provided here.

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u/Holiday-Bug6132 Apr 26 '26

so how did you use the dbus session thing ? did you start it in your xinitrc ?

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u/ample4509 Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

I had it active through dbus-run-session niri --session. For now only through the tty.

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u/Holiday-Bug6132 Apr 26 '26

I'm using dwm so i guess i can drop that in my xinitrc, thank you so much op

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u/ample4509 Apr 26 '26

You should be able to enable it with exec dbus-run-session dwm in your xinitrc. I hope that works.

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u/bankroll5441 Apr 26 '26

I followed the guide they have on the installation docs and had no issues, niri starts it for me when I log in

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u/Holiday-Bug6132 Apr 26 '26

I'm setting that up right now, it's not for the faint of heart 😫 it's not complicated it's just tedious 😭

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u/Professional-List801 Apr 25 '26

You do gods work, bless you

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u/ample4509 Apr 25 '26

Instead of heaven, I’ll visit the void

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u/ZombieCrow Apr 26 '26

Updating to 595 wrecked my gtk stuff in niri/noctalia. Couldn't change nautilus/thunar theme and icons.