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fakemishraji

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Registered: 2022-07-14

Posts: 8

Nvidia installation failing time and again

The output of "$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)""

5:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 730] (rev a1)
        Kernel driver in use: nouveau
        Kernel modules: nouveau

And, I have followed the official guide, which says I need to
" For the Kepler (NVE0/GKXXX) series, install the nvidia-470xx-dkmsAUR package."

I have tried to do this by installing "nvidia" package directly but it did not work well for me. Kindly share how do I get this done.
Total newbie here!

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 18,891

Re: Nvidia installation failing time and again

Please read Arch_User_Repository#Getting_started and Makepkg and DKMS.
If you still have issues after reading those wiki pages and the wiki pages they reference,  please provide the commands you used and their outputs in attempting to build and install nvidia-470xx-dkms.

fakemishraji

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Registered: 2022-07-14

Posts: 8

Re: Nvidia installation failing time and again

Thank you so much. This worked!
For anyone struggling with this, also have to install headers for the kernels.

I am so happy. I have Arch with Nvidia finally