This means that these drivers do not officially support the current Xorg version. If you have an older card, NVIDIA no longer actively supports drivers for your card. Once the driver has been installed, continue to #Xorg configuration or #Wayland. The nvidia-utils package contains a file which blacklists the nouveau module, so rebooting is necessary. This will prevent the initramfs from containing the nouveau module making sure the kernel cannot load it during early boot.Ħ. Remove kms from the HOOKS array in /etc/nf and regenerate the initramfs. For 32-bit application support, also install the corresponding lib32 package from the multilib repository (e.g. For even older cards, have a look at #Unsupported drivers.Ĥ.
Be aware, this security feature is responsible for mitigating a class of exploit techniques. You can disable it by setting the ibt=off kernel parameter from the boot loader. Note: 470xx and older drivers may not function correctly on Linux 5.18 (or later) on systems with Intel CPUs 11th Gen and newer due an incompatibility with Indirect Branch Tracking.
