nvidia driver installation guide

this guide is based upon:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA/Tips_and_tricks
https://github.com/korvahannu/arch-nvidia-drivers-installation-guide

tuxwarrior nvidia setup

information gathering

$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation TU104BM [GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER Mobile / Max-Q] (rev a1)

Lookup card at https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html to find codename:
NV164 (TU104)

Card is not found on the legacy driver list at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/legacy-gpu/.

The wiki says:

For the Turing (NV160/TUXXX) series or newer, NVIDIA recommends the open source kernel driver. install the nvidia-open package (for use with the linux kernel) or the nvidia-open-dkms package (for all other kernels). (If these packages do not work, usually due to new hardware releases, nvidia-open-beta (AUR) may have a newer driver version that offers support.) The nvidia-utils package contains a file which blacklists the nouveau module once you reboot

add nvidia software to packages.txt for given host

added to dots/archinstall/tuxwarrior/packages.txt:

nvidia-open
nvidia-utils
nvidia-settings

set kernel parameter (systemd-boot)

edit the appropriate .conf file for the boot entry:

sudo nano /boot/loader/entries/<filename>.conf
append nvidia-drm.modeset=1 nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 to the options line
save (ctrl+s) and close (ctrl+x)

set early loading

sudo nano /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
find the line that says MODULES=(…)
add nvidia modules: MODULES=(… nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)
find the line that says HOOKS=()
on the HOOKS=() line, find the word kms inside the parenthesis and remove it
save (ctrl+s) and close (ctrl+x)
regenerate the initramfs with sudo mkinitcpio -P

add pacman hook

sudo mkdir -p /etc/pacman.d/hooks/ && sudo mv /home/poq/syncDir/gitRepos/gt.op.fo/lnx-arch/dots/nvidia/nvidia.hook /etc/pacman.d/hooks/

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