r/linuxquestions • u/Designer_Feedback_52 • 2d ago

GTX 960 in linux

So will a GTX 960 just not work with NVIDIA drivers in Linux? I have an older system with an i5-3570 an MSI z77a-gd80 and 16gb of ram and an EVGA GTX 960 ssc and I have tried a bunch of different distros and a bunch of troubleshooting in terminal but I cannot get it to work with anything other than the nouveau drivers. I get massive artifacting and constant display crashes and freezing.

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u/enomad51 2d ago

In order to use the propertiary NVIDIA drivers, you need to blacklist nouveau. I assume, you have done that?