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khodagah

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Registered: 2025-03-31

Posts: 2

Kernel 6.14.9-arch1-1 and RTX 3050 6GB

Hello,

I've been fighting with my laptop Dell G15 5530 (CPU: 13th Gen Intel i5-13450HX (16) @ 4.600GHz, GPUs: Intel Raptor Lake-S UHD Graphics + NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU) for a couple of months. Arch works perfectly without NVIDIA drivers. However, I would rather use only NVIDIA (with turned off hybrid optimus mode). After installation of NVIDIA drivers I need to reboot system few times to get a stable working, unstability means kernel panic errors. So, my question is what is the proper NVIDIA driver version for the current kernel and the dGPU?

Thanks in advance,

Last edited by khodagah (2025-05-31 16:35:37)

ernesto159

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From: France

Registered: 2022-02-08

Posts: 10

Re: Kernel 6.14.9-arch1-1 and RTX 3050 6GB

Hi,

Nvidia recommends their open source driver for your GPU.
This would be the nvidia-open (or nvidia-open-dkms if you prefer the dkms variant) package in Arch case.

If you are encountering issues, you can try adding the nvidia modules to the initramfs in order to load them as early as possible.

See this page: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA