First off, my understanding is from a few months ago and this may already be fixed. I tried some searches but didn't find any topics that seemed similar, but please direct me to such if I just missed them.
I bought an nVidia 5060Ti approximately a week after it was released, purely because it was the cheapest way at the time to get 16GB of VRAM to maximize my local AI capabilities. This also made that machine the most powerful gaming system I had, so I wanted to put COS on it.
I got through all the secure boot, trusted platform, and BIOS issues, and got up to the start of the graphical installer. But it would never continue.
I discovered, upon trying to install other Linux distros, that the available nVidia driver packages didn't understand this card at all (required building beta drivers directly from nVidia), and it was having to run in a comparatively low resolution, essentially dumb framebuffer mode. That meant that COS couldn't run a compositor, or anything 3D, or even video, probably.
I did figure out how to work my way through these problems with manual driver installs on my other distro (Mint Linux, based on Ubuntu, for anyone who's curious). It wasn't easy, and took me a couple of evenings of frustration, but I could do it. But I couldn't get COS to give me a "dumb video card" install mode so that I could get running and then log in to do all the gritty work.
Since then, the Debian/Ubuntu nVidia drivers have caught up, so I probably just need to grab the newest version of the installer ISO. But just in case this happens again (either to me or to some other hopeful who is riding the razor's edge), is there a way to do a text install, or a "dumb framebuffer" install?
Many thanks! Awesome work!
Text install option (cutting edge cards not detected, stops installer)
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