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stbug

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Registered: 2025-01-23

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[SOLVED] Don't know which NVIDIA drivers I should install

Solution:
On the NVIDIA - ArchWiki there are some specific NVXX and their respective family drivers, but the one from NV160 applies to newer cards, which I though only applied to newer versions of the TUXXX, so the driver worked for GA107 (NV177) and now the vulkaninfo command works for me.

Original post:
I was reading about NVIDIA - ArchWiki, but the GPU I'm using is an NVIDIA GA107 GeForce RTX 2050 and I don't which driver should I install.
I just have installed nvidia-utils

lspci -k -d ::03xx
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Alder Lake-P GT1 [UHD Graphics] (rev 0c)
        DeviceName:  Onboard IGD
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 8c3f
        Kernel driver in use: i915
        Kernel modules: i915, xe
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107 [GeForce RTX 2050] (rev a1)
        DeviceName: NVIDIA Graphics Device
        Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 8c3f
        Kernel driver in use: nouveau
        Kernel modules: nouveau

Last edited by stbug (2025-01-23 21:36:40)

Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Don't know which NVIDIA drivers I should install

What's confusing you?

mackin_cheese

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Re: [SOLVED] Don't know which NVIDIA drivers I should install

The wiki has the details or has links that can provide the details on which drivers you should be using. Which part is confusing you?

stbug

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Re: [SOLVED] Don't know which NVIDIA drivers I should install

I didn't find the one that is for NV177

mackin_cheese

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Re: [SOLVED] Don't know which NVIDIA drivers I should install

Have you not seen in, in the wiki, "Turing (NV160/TUXXX) and newer" ? The "newer" is where your nv177 is applicable

mackin_cheese

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Re: [SOLVED] Don't know which NVIDIA drivers I should install

same thing with "Maxwell (NV110/GMXXX) through Ada Lovelace (NV190/ADXXX)" NV177 is between NV110 and NV190.

stbug

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Re: [SOLVED] Don't know which NVIDIA drivers I should install

Have you not seen in, in the wiki, "Turing (NV160/TUXXX) and newer" ? The "newer" is where your nv177 is applicable

Ahhh, thank you so much. Because of the TUXXX I thought the newer versions only aplied to that family.