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Installing NVIDIA Drivers on Arch Linux ​

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There is a tool called Nvidiainstall Which automatically installs and configures Nvidia Drivers for your system.

Install NVIDIA Packages ​

Open a terminal and run the following command to install the necessary NVIDIA packages:

bash
sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms libglvnd nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia egl-wayland

Configure mkinitcpio ​

  • Open the mkinitcpio.conf file:

    bash
    sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

  • Find the MODULES line and add the following modules:

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    MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)

  • Remove kms from the HOOKS line to avoid conflicts. It might look something like this:

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    HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck)

Save and exit the file (Ctrl + X, then Y, then Enter).

Create NVIDIA Configuration File ​

Create the /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf file:

bash
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf

Add the following line to the file:

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options nvidia_drm modeset=1 fbdev=1

Save and exit the file (Ctrl + X, then Y, then Enter).

Update GRUB Configuration ​

  • Open the GRUB configuration file:

    bash
    sudo nano /etc/default/grub

  • Find the line starting with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and update it to include the following options:

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    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet nvidia_drm.modeset=1"

  • Save and exit the file (Ctrl + X, then Y, then Enter).

Regenerate initramfs ​

Run the following command to regenerate the initramfs with your changes:

bash
sudo mkinitcpio -P

Update GRUB ​

Run the following command to update the GRUB configuration:

bash
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Reboot ​

Finally, reboot your system to apply the changes:

bash
sudo reboot