nvidia.md

install utilties

sudo pacman -S lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia opencl-nvidia nvidia nvidia-utils

add nvidia to pacman hook for auto-upgrades on kernel upgrades:

/etc/pacman.d/hooks/nvidia.hook

[Trigger] Operation=Install Operation=Upgrade Operation=Remove Type=Package Target=nvidia Target=linux

Change the linux part above and in the Exec line if a different kernel is used

[Action] Description=Update Nvidia module in initcpio Depends=mkinitcpio When=PostTransaction NeedsTargets Exec=/bin/sh -c 'while read -r trg; do case $trg in linux) exit 0; esac; done; /usr/bin/mkinitcpio -P'

blacklist nouveau

sudo bash -c "echo blacklist nouveau > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nvidia-nouveau.conf"

Load nvidia modules on boot – update firmware

vi /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)

sudo mkinitcpio -P linux