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NVIDIA Driver Installation

Lean's edited this page Jul 18, 2024 · 8 revisions

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

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...

  • sudo mkinitcpio -p linux

  • sudo update-grub

  • reboot

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