Nvidia stuff

Older cards

From the wiki you can gather that if you card is bellow 16XX¹

You will need the AUR. See this

Example on 1050Ti

1. Launch archinstoo with --advanced flag
2. Skip Graphics Driver and toggle kernel headers in kernel menu.
3. Add to AUR packages nvidia-580xx-utils
4. Add to additional packages libva-nvidia-driver

And you are done !

Recent cards

Is much easier: The only main thing to understand is that if you pick a kernel that is not mainline linux you will need dkms. (This is handled automatically). So using mainline kernel makes pacman updates easier/faster.

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