NVIDIA Drivers Arch Linux Support

Installation

https://github.com/korvahannu/arch-nvidia-drivers-installation-guide

Installing Packages

1. Install yay package manager
2. Enable multilib repository
3. sudo pacman -S nvidia
4. sudo pacman -S nvidia-utils
5. yay -S nvidia-settings

Setting Kernel Parameter

1. sudo vim /etc/default/grub
2. append nvidia-drm.modeset=1 to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT line
3. sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Editing mkinitcpio

1. sudo vim /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
2. update the line MODULES=() to be:

MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)

3. Update the like HOOKS() to remove the word kms
4. sudo mkinitcpio -P

Editing Hook

1. sudo pacman -S wget
2. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/korvahannu/arch-nvidia-drivers-installation-guide/main/nvidia.hook
3. sudo mkdir -p /etc/pacman.d/hooks/ && sudo mv ./nvidia.hook /etc/pacman.d/hooks/

Checking

1. reboot
2. nvidia-smi