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olig1905

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Registered: 2012-01-21

Posts: 32

New Graphic Card - How to change Driver?

Hi All,

Firstly if this is in the wiki somewhere or there is a post, I was unable to find it. So a point in the right direction would be appreciated.

I recently inherited a graphic card, Nvidia 430 (i think), and I am currently running on the integrated graphics on my i7. Currently I am using intel-dri with mesa-libgl.

What is the reccomended way to swap drivers without messing anything up.

Thanks, Oli

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: New Graphic Card - How to change Driver?

Remove the Intel drivers, install nvidia drivers, change any configuration if needed.

olig1905

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Registered: 2012-01-21

Posts: 32

Re: New Graphic Card - How to change Driver?

Im aware that is what needs doing, I was more looking for guidance on how to do it without breaking dependencies. Or wrecking my system.

pacman -Rdd intel-dri mesa-libgl lib32-mesa-libgl
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-libgl lib32-nvidia-libgl

i actually believe i need the 'nvidia-96xx' driver and utils from the AUR, because I am using a 430 (I need to check this still, having found out there are different drivers).
Can someone confirm that this should be correct before i continue.

Thanks,
Oli

the_shiver

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Registered: 2013-03-27

Posts: 130

Re: New Graphic Card - How to change Driver?

nvidia-96xx is for older (really old) nvidia cards

for more info as to how nvidia names their cards see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce#Generations

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: New Graphic Card - How to change Driver?

nvidia wiki article has the link to http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/CodeNames/ It says that GeForce GT 430 belongs to NVC0 family.
The wiki says

For GeForce 8 series and newer [NVC0 and newer] cards, install nvidia package, available in the official repositories.

Just make sure it's not nForce 430, which is a different animal.