RTX 5070 causes black screen on Zorin OS after installing NVIDIA driver

[dolfos]

I’m running into an issue with my new RTX 5070 on Zorin OS. I installed Zorin successfully using safe graphics mode, but when I try to enable the NVIDIA driver, I get a black screen with a white underscore at boot.

Here’s what I’ve tried so far:

Installing Zorin OS in safe graphics mode

Updating the system (sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade)

Booting with nomodeset allows me to reach the desktop

Tried recovery menu options, but still can’t boot normally with NVIDIA enabled

My goal is to use the proprietary 580 driver for full GPU acceleration. Or literally any driver that will allow me to efficiently use the GPUs abilities.

This is the only OS I have right now and I do have partitions as I was planning on install windows 11 after I get this set up since I’m trying to dual boot. I’m unsure if that is relevant but wanted to mention it.

[Aravisian]

@dolfos

Booting with nomodeset allows me to reach the desktop

Doing this to reach the desktop, then opening a terminal - OR using the Recovery Menu > Drop to root prompt.
Or using tty

Can you run the following commands:
sudo apt remove --purge '^nvidia-.*' '^libnvidia-.*'

With that cleaning done, try

sudo apt update && sudo apt install nvidia-driver-580 nvidia-dkms-580

[Ponce-De-Leon]

Welcome to the Forum!

@dolfos

This is the only OS I have right now and I do have partitions as I was planning on install windows 11 after I get this set up since I’m trying to dual boot.

If You really plan this, I would recommend to install Windows first and then Zorin. This should make less Issues.

[StarTreker]

@Ponce-De-Leon

If You really plan this, I would recommend to install Windows first and then Zorin. This should make less Issues.

I concur, this is the way! Just don't forget to disable Fast Startup in Windows, before you install Linux. Also keep in mind, while Windows loves Secure Boot so much, Linux does not. Keeping Secure Boot enabled for Windows, usually causes problems for Linux, so we typically recommend disabling Secure Boot.

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