NVIDIA enabled

[ikeycode]

We've landed the proprietary nvidia drivers in the repositories. Note we support only the open-gpu-kernel-modules variant (see the post below for details on what that implies) which we prebuild against our linux-desktop package.

sudo moss sync -u
sudo moss it nvidia-graphics-driver

The required nvidia-open-gpu-kernel-modules package will be pulled in. Reboot and enjoy!

The steam package is also in the repos, pulling in necessary 32bit deps and accounts for our use of libc++ by default in Serpent OS.

Please report any issues you find.!

[ikeycode]

[ermo]

Just to help people understand what "(...) we support only the open-gpu-kernel-modules variant" implies, I've included the verbiage from https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/565.77/README/kernel_open.html here:

Supported Features

The proprietary flavor supports the GPU architectures Maxwell, Pascal, Volta, Turing, and later GPUs until Blackwell. Blackwell and later are only supported by the open kernel modules.

The open flavor of kernel modules supports Turing and later GPUs. The open kernel modules cannot support GPUs before Turing, because the open kernel modules depend on the GPU System Processor (GSP) first introduced in Turing.

The following features will only work with the open kernel modules flavor of the driver:

• NVIDIA Confidential Computing

• Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage (GDS)

• Heterogeneous Memory Management (HMM)

• CPU affinity for GPU fault handlers

• DMABUF support for CUDA allocations

Known Issues

The following are some known limitations of the open kernel modules versus the proprietary kernel modules with GSP firmware mode disabled:

• GPU initialization is slower. One possible mitigation is to use nvidia-persistenced to initialize the GPU(s) in advance, before running applications that use the GPU.

• Enter and exit latencies for power-saving modes like S3, S4 and Run Time D3 (RTD3) can be longer due to additional GSP state being restored.

• GPU power consumption can be marginally impacted in some scenarios.

• Run Time D3 (RTD3) is only supported on Ampere and above GPUs.

P.S. In general, we don't recommend that people buy NVIDIA hardware unless they absolutely have to for $DAYJOB reasons. It genuinely sucks for distros to have to deal with NVIDIA hardware and their proprietary stack 🙄.

If your goal is to support and encourage companies who themselves offer their drivers under an Open Source license, buy AMD or intel hardware instead.

[Julinuv]

Hi im trying your OS for fist time since i love your approach but right now im ruinning it on a bare metal asus rog zephyrous with a nvidia gpu (rtx2060).

when i try to install driver like you've shown my bios tell me my sgx is disable and my pc is stuck in booting.

i know the straight forward answer is to activate it in bios but i don't have it in my bios.

Would someone know a workaround if not i might go back to nixOS or try another distro but i really want to give serpentOS a try.

[ryzendew]

thats my issue as well