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
I’m reading again everything to see for something that could help, it’s look like optimus could be a solution, thanks
Optimus gets complex quick. You’ll be reading pci bus ids before you know it. Keep the wiki open, go slowly; you got this :)
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.
The best thing about arch is the wiki.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA
That said, on a laptop, you will likely need prime, optimus, or bumblebee depending on your CPU/GPU.
I’m looking right now on optimus, and it’s seems like it’s what we need, we’ll be testing it as soon as possible, thank you very much!
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Because it’s a laptop.
Have you tried
pacman -Syu nvidia?Yes, he is been using arch for almost year and a half but he has never managed to make the drivers work, this pakage unfortunatley didn´t work neither when he tried himself or now while I’m trying to help him, thanks btw
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nvidia-dkmshas never not worked for me. Arch wiki has more info in the nvidia page.If this laptop is your friend’s main laptop, I’d recommend going for something other than arch or at the very least preparing before going into it
DKMS would have been my next suggestion too.
We’re thinking in the possibility of using debian only for games, because he’s been using arch for almost a year and a half and he likes it very much, but we could prefer having the drivers working on arch directly for convenience
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If it ends up being Optimus, I’ve found optimus-manager-qt from the aur to be great. You don’t have to mess around with configs and you can make switching or setting to Nvidia permanently really easy with it
try using nvidia-dkms and linux-headers instead of nvidia
Lts Kernel
Btw I use Debian
Nuke it and install Pop for Nvidia. No sense in using Arch.
He likes arch and the whole point of the existence of distros is that you could take one and adjust it to your needs
Correct, but when you don’t know how to install the drivers for your GPU you might hit be ready for Arch.
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