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hwallace

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Registered: 2021-08-30

Posts: 110

[SOLVED] nouveau -> nvidia issues

I have been okay with nouveau until I wanted to do some work in portrait mode -- which suffers from extreme screen tearing.

People suggest I switch to the nvidia driver so following this:
     https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141699
I installed nvidia packages and rebooted.

    :> pacman -Ss nvidia | grep installed
    extra/egl-wayland 2:1.1.12-1 [installed]
    extra/libvdpau 1.5-1 [installed]
    extra/libxnvctrl 535.54.03-1 [installed]
    extra/nvidia-dkms 535.54.03-1 [installed]
    extra/nvidia-utils 535.54.03-1 [installed]

   

The post suggests that the nvidia install takes care of blacklisting and setting up the nvidia driver, however after a reboot I see this:

    :> lsmod | grep -E 'nouveau|nvidia'
    nouveau              3444736  1
    drm_ttm_helper         16384  1 nouveau
    i2c_algo_bit           20480  2 i915,nouveau
    mxm_wmi                16384  1 nouveau
    drm_display_helper    208896  2 i915,nouveau
    ttm                   102400  3 drm_ttm_helper,i915,nouveau
    video                  73728  3 asus_wmi,i915,nouveau
    wmi                    45056  5 video,intel_wmi_thunderbolt,asus_wmi,mxm_wmi,nouveau

And the graphics controller is still attached to nouveau:
   

     sudo lshw -class display
       *-display                 
        description: 3D controller
        product: GM107M [GeForce GTX 960M]
        vendor: NVIDIA Corporation
        physical id: 0
        bus info: pci@0000:01:00.0
        version: a2
        width: 64 bits
        clock: 33MHz
        capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list rom
        configuration: driver=nouveau latency=0

Last edited by hwallace (2023-07-16 12:18:23)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] nouveau -> nvidia issues

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#Installation
You skipped a step.

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hwallace

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Registered: 2021-08-30

Posts: 110

Re: [SOLVED] nouveau -> nvidia issues

Thanks.