Proper Nvidia Installation with some Kernel tweaks

haid3r · 2024-10-02 23:25:46

I’ve been using Arch Linux for about 5 to 6 months now, and I’ve managed to survive with the Nouveau drivers. During that time, my laptop was running smoothly with low usage. However, I’ve recently started requiring more computational power, which necessitates the use of NVIDIA drivers.I've attempted to install the NVIDIA drivers several times, but I keep running into issues. Most notably, my laptop becomes very hot, and I’ve had to reinstall Arch around 4 to 5 times in just one week.Really, need help to maintain the work.
LAPTOP INFO:
Intel i5 12
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT1 [UHD Graphics] (rev 0c)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce GTX 1650 Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)
NOTE:(reinstall, just these things for now)
For now i have open source drivers for both gpu installed with archinstall
plasma with wayland or xorg
kernels( linux and linux zen)
First Thing, is I want to download drivers without any issue
Secondly I want to configure my system so that the NVIDIA drivers are only used when I boot into the Linux Zen kernel, while the Intel and Nouveau drivers are used in Linux and i want to save power as much power as i can in Linux kernel boot
Thanku

seth · 2024-10-03 07:14:59

First Thing, is I want to download drivers without any issue

You're not going to download anything from nvidia.com => https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA
You're gonna need nvidia-dkms or nvidia-open-dkms and the linux-zen-headers
nvidia-utils will blacklist nouveau, you'll have to remove that modprobe config and handle the blacklisting over the kernel commandline. Is there any rational reason why you'd want to use the nvidia drivers w/ the zen kernel but not the regular one?

i want to save power as much power as i can

This ha absolutely nothing to do w/ the kernel you're booting and if that was the rationale for the above, you don't have one.
=> https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PRIME

haid3r · 2024-10-03 07:56:04

Thanku very much for your response
so basically i want to use nvidia on linux zen because i searched about it that it is basically for kind of performance so whenever i want to do heavy stuff i will use it
and mostly i work in normal mode so i want linux kernel with nvidia off to extend the battery time

Last edited by haid3r (2024-10-03 08:01:13)

seth · 2024-10-03 12:34:47

because i searched about it that it is basically for kind of performance

Did you search something called ChatGPT…?
https://github.com/zen-kernel/zen-kerne … ature-List - it's mostly down to lower latency (at the expense of higher throughput)
The system will/might feel "snappier" but won't be "faster" (it can actually become slower, depending on the task)

The way to get nvidia off (dynamically) is the RTD3 configuration in the wiki, regardless of what kernel you use.
It'll completely power down the GPU when it's not used and you typicall will use prime-run (nvidia-prime package, it's just a script exporting some environment variables) to run a game on the nvidia chip.

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#1 2024-10-02 23:25:46

Proper Nvidia Installation with some Kernel tweaks

#2 2024-10-03 07:14:59

Re: Proper Nvidia Installation with some Kernel tweaks

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