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jboons

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Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 37

[Solved] Installing different graphics card

I have an ASUS G50Vt with a GeForce 9800M GS card. During my installation of Arch, I figured I'd settle with the Nouveau driver because it's easy to install. Now I want to upgrade to the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.36 driver. How would I go about disabling Nouveau and installing the new one? I was thinking:

# pacman -R xf86-video-nouveau
# killall Xorg
# ./NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-260.19.36.run

Would this work, or are there other things I need to account for as well?

Last edited by jboons (2011-01-26 22:59:32)

Gusar

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Registered: 2009-08-25

Posts: 3,605

Re: [Solved] Installing different graphics card

Don't use the nvidia installer!!

Just install the nvidia and nvidia-utils packages with pacman. Then reboot. Those two packages already contain the necessary configuration files. Rebooting is not strictly necessary, but it's the easiest method.

jboons

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Registered: 2010-09-25

Posts: 37

Re: [Solved] Installing different graphics card

Don't use the nvidia installer!!

Just install the nvidia and nvidia-utils packages with pacman. Then reboot. Those two packages already contain the necessary configuration files. Rebooting is not strictly necessary, but it's the easiest method.

Huh, alright, good to know. Thanks!