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, curiously, neofetch detect it as a second gpu

  • smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.ca
    132·
    11 months ago

    You can get the nvidia driver packages from the built-in repo.

    pacman -S nvidia-dkms

    should solve most of your problems

    A lot of this stuff is already covered in the arch wiki, specifically challenging things like drivers. You should look into the documentation prior to asking.

  • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Oh. Also, post the output of inxi -G

    This will tell you whether or not the driver is installed, and which version. neofetch is useless for this task.

  • Fecundpossum@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    11 months ago

    Like the other user said, this is all plain as day on the EndeavourOS wiki, but, I have something to add.

    Seeing as how this is an Nvidia Optimus laptop, you will need a graphics switching utility to switch between, CPU, GPU, and Hybrid graphics modes.

    The graphical way is to install optimus-manager and optimus-manager-qt. Once they are both installed, restart, and you will have a system tray icon that allows you to select your graphics mode.

    The way I prefer, is to just use envycontrol, and do my graphics switching from the CLI. Mine stays connected to a monitor for gaming and is always plugged in when I’m using it, so I just set it to hardware acceleration and leave it. If I ever take it to the couch for non gaming activities I can always set it to hybrid mode with a simple command.

    Again, this is all in the wiki.