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  • Its not an out of the box installation. He has an existing ubuntu installation and is upgrading the GPU. We can always be like oh you ran into a single issue, just get rid of your hardware and swap to an entirely new distro. Thats a worst case solution to the problem.

    AMD has built in support so no extra steps needed.

    Doesnt matter, he isnt asking about an AMD card.

    Ubuntu has a history of not having the latest kernels and having spotty support for new hardware.

    Its actually the opposite, ubuntu generally has very good hardware support. Cannonical work with vendors to test hardware works on their platform. The 5070 phronix benchmarks were done on ubuntu. Suggesting its a distro issue is ignoring the problem





  • I hate to be the jerk but it’s because you got Nvidia

    No its not. The nvidia 5070 works on linux and has for a while now.

    I would also try a different distribution that’s known for having more recent kernels and faster development. Something like Manjaro is actually a pretty good fit for this situation.

    We really need to avoid just suggesting a different distro as the solution. In this case it makes no sense, they’re running kernel 6.14 and the Nvidia driver is out of kernel. Phoronix benchmarked the 5070 running an older version of ubuntu and still got good performance and it worked well. That means their version of ubuntu which is new enough to support it. Im not sure what the issue is but I think switching distro’s is a last resort once you’ve tried everything else.


  • Can you run nvidia-smi and confirm you’re on the 570 driver?

    Also after you do a failed boot with the 5070 put the 2070 back in and try run this command journalctl -b -1 -p 0..2 to check the log from the previous boot and filter for only high priority issues. This should give some insight on whats failing when you try and boot with the 5070.

    Another dumb check but have you got the display cables plugged into the gpu?