By Manuel, 2022-Mar-31Latest update: 2023-Jul-14 Important for older Nvidia GPUs! Currently (2023-Feb) nvidia-inst does not support installing (older) legacy drivers. This means certain older Nvidia… Read More »New Nvidia driver installer, nvidia-inst
Nvidia intro As most newer cards will work with the latest (called nvidia) driver, older cards are no longer supported by the latest driver. Nvidia… Read More »Nvidia intro
Optimus-Manager for Nvidia [for nvidia-latest driver and newer systems supported by that driver] The state of optimus-manager If you have a newer Nvidia-Intel hybrid Notebook,… Read More »Optimus-Manager for Nvidia
Bumblebee for NVIDIA Optimus (older systems) This is candidate for removal, as of only needed for devices already gone legacy for long times. Introduction For… Read More »Bumblebee for NVIDIA Optimus (older systems)
Find out if you are on such system run this from terminal: lspci -vnn | grep ‘\”[030[02]\]’ if it gives out something like this with… Read More »NVidia Optimus Notebooks (hybrid graphics)
Nvidia Optional Enhancements and Troubleshooting It can happen that you will fail to load the Nvidia driver in some cases, such as the presence of… Read More »Nvidia Optional Enhancements and Troubleshooting
Envy Control EnvyControl is a CLI tool that provides an easy way to switch between GPU modes on Nvidia Optimus systems (i.e laptops with hybrid… Read More »Envy Control
Dracut Overview dracut is a highly modular tool for generating initramfs images. As of the Cassini release in 2022, it is the default for EndeavourOS.… Read More »Dracut
The following article will help you take the first steps towards gaming on Arch Linux. Table of contents: Requirements Additional Software G-Sync Glossary Resources Sources:Linux… Read More »Gaming #101
This article provides some background on video playback in Arch Linux. Table of contents: Introduction Hardware video acceleration makes it possible for the video card… Read More »Video playback