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How do I get Nviddia drivers to work in arch? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So i’m helping my best friend to try instaling nvidia gtx 1050 mobile drivers on his laptop, we genualy don’t know what to do and i can figure out how to make it work, so it would be very helpfull if someone could explain me what to do or provive me with a guide to make it work

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm reading again everything to see for something that could help, it's look like optimus could be a solution, thanks

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Optimus gets complex quick. You’ll be reading pci bus ids before you know it. Keep the wiki open, go slowly; you got this :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Indeed, since it's a laptop. It uses the iGPU for battery saving graphics and the Nvidia dGPU for performance. That's hybrid graphics / optimus.

That said, Nvidia is a pain. I always recommend distrohopping until you land on a distro that mostly works for your use case and go from there.