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charlesyiu

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Registered: 2023-01-10

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Will Arch display without nividia drivers or integrated graphics?

I am planning on building a PC that has a RTX2060s and i5-12400F. (that doesn't have integrated graphics) and my knowledge Nividia's gpus require drivers to work and without integrated graphics I don't think it would be able to output video for me to install the 2060s drivers.

d.ALT

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Registered: 2019-05-10

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Re: Will Arch display without nividia drivers or integrated graphics?

without integrated graphics I don't think it would be able to output video for me to install the 2060s drivers.

Nope, you'll get some sort of (ugly?) video output, anyway. Even if you have a nVIDIA GPU only. ArchISO ships nouveau enabled by default.
Then, during the Installation you will be capable of installing any driver your nVIDIA GPU needs.

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V1del

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Re: Will Arch display without nividia drivers or integrated graphics?

If the installation medium doesn't boot due to nouveau issues you can always add nomodeset to the kernel parameters to get a plain text console. But you basically will always be able to get to some terminal in some way.

Last edited by V1del (2023-01-10 09:52:47)