Installing NVIDIA Drivers on Arch Linux

Install NVIDIA Packages

Open a terminal and run the following command to install the necessary NVIDIA packages:

sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms libglvnd nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia nvidia-settings lib32-nvidia-utils lib32-opencl-nvidia egl-wayland

Configure mkinitcpio

• Open the mkinitcpio.conf file:

  sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf

• Find the MODULES line and add the following modules:

  MODULES=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)

• Remove kms from the HOOKS line to avoid conflicts. It might look something like this:

  HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf block filesystems keyboard fsck)

Save and exit the file (Ctrl + X, then Y, then Enter).

Create NVIDIA Configuration File

Create the /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf file:

sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf

Add the following line to the file:

options nvidia_drm modeset=1 fbdev=1

Save and exit the file (Ctrl + X, then Y, then Enter).

Update GRUB Configuration

• Open the GRUB configuration file:

  sudo nano /etc/default/grub

• Find the line starting with GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT and update it to include the following options:

  GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="loglevel=3 quiet nvidia_drm.modeset=1"

• Save and exit the file (Ctrl + X, then Y, then Enter).

Regenerate initramfs

Run the following command to regenerate the initramfs with your changes:

sudo mkinitcpio -P

Update GRUB

Run the following command to update the GRUB configuration:

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Reboot

Finally, reboot your system to apply the changes:

sudo reboot