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prxvvy

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Registered: 2022-02-24

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Slow boot after installing NVIDIA proprietary drivers

Hello, I'm new to Arch, I been using it for two weeks now, and I really like it.
Anyway, I've got a RTX 3060 nvidia card I followed some guide I found on how to install nvidia drivers on arch, I just had to install it through 'pacman -S nvidia' command and that's it I didn't do something else. I dont play on linux I just wanted to learn how to make it recognize my card and also obs studio as it was using my intel gpu and I wasn't getting the best performance imo
The problem is that every time I boot into arch it takes long, if not forever, to boot as well as when turning off and sometimes it wasn't even booting at all, and when I got to login to the system it was consuming a lot of RAM and RAM is extremely important to me. Issue disappeared after uninstalling nvidia drivers.
So I'd like to know the correct way to install nvidia drivers without any performance, booting, or shut down issue

seth

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Re: Slow boot after installing NVIDIA proprietary drivers

I followed some guide I found on how to install nvidia drivers on arch

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

obs studio as it was using my intel gpu

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA_Optimus

I boot into arch it takes long, if not forever, to boot as well as when turning off and sometimes it wasn't even booting at all, and when I got to login to the system it was consuming a lot of RAM

lspci -k | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
systemd-analyze blame | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
sudo journalctl -b | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
cat /proc/meminfo | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io
top -bn1 -o %MEM | head -50 | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

Last edited by seth (2022-02-24 21:16:23)

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