NVIDIA Driver Installation

Downloading

For lib32 you need to set the multilib

• sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils linux-headers

Disabling Nouveau open source drivers

• sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/nouveau.conf

Add

blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0

Experimental use with official nvidia site

Enabling early load on nvidia

• sudo vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

Edit

MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
...
...
# Remove kms
HOOKS=(... kms ...)

• sudo vim /etc/default/grub

Implement

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nvidia_drm.modeset=1"

Downloading official drivers

• download the Nvidia proprietary driver
• sudo chmod +x NVIDIA...
• sudo ./NVIDIA...

Refreshing configurations

• sudo mkinitcpio -p linux
• sudo update-grub
• reboot

Checking if everthing is ok

• lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"

Should be like that

VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA106 [Geforce RTX 3050] (rev a1)
        Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 163d
        Kernel driver in use: nvidia

Controlling

Hybrid GPUs with Nvidia

Controlling voltage

• nvidia-smi -pl 160.30

• Limiting the nvidia gpu voltage to 160.30W

• nvidia-smi -q

• nvidia-settings -q GPUPowerSource -t Need to test

• Show current voltage used by the GPUs