So i’m helping my best friend to try instaling nvidia gtx 1050 mobile drivers on his laptop, we genualy don’t know what to do and i can figure out how to make it work, so it would be very helpfull if someone could explain me what to do or provive me with a guide to make it work

    • Liz_thestrange@lemmy.mlOP
      7·
      11 months ago

      I’m reading again everything to see for something that could help, it’s look like optimus could be a solution, thanks

      • navigatron@beehaw.org
        6·
        11 months ago

        Optimus gets complex quick. You’ll be reading pci bus ids before you know it. Keep the wiki open, go slowly; you got this :)

      • warmaster@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        Indeed, since it’s a laptop. It uses the iGPU for battery saving graphics and the Nvidia dGPU for performance. That’s hybrid graphics / optimus.

        That said, Nvidia is a pain. I always recommend distrohopping until you land on a distro that mostly works for your use case and go from there.

    • Liz_thestrange@lemmy.mlOP
      3·
      11 months ago

      Yes, he is been using arch for almost year and a half but he has never managed to make the drivers work, this pakage unfortunatley didn´t work neither when he tried himself or now while I’m trying to help him, thanks btw

  • sudo_su@feddit.de
    10·
    11 months ago

    I have a 1050 in my Laptop and it works fine with the nvidia package AS proprietary driver

      • sudo_su@feddit.de
        1·
        11 months ago

        According to the linked wiki, try to go to https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/CodeNames.html.

        Check on your laptop with dmesg | grep -i chipset the codename of your graphic card. With this you can check which driver is the best on https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA. There is a paragraph, explaining which driver is the best.

        If I understand it right, the nvidia package is the correct one for 1050. So you can use pacman -S nvidia with root privileges. All dependencies should be resolved automatically.

        I would recommend to reboot, in case there are changed kernel modules.

        2 things i have to note: Using Wayland is a total mess with nvidia. Specially on Arch Linux. I have screen flickering in GUI and games, the performance is so lala and tools like KeePass which needs access to the text in window titles did not work complete. On Manjaro, the flickering doesn’t exist, but the other symptoms do. Maybe im missing some packages on Arch.

        Second with Vulkan i have some tearing in games. I have not looked further in to that.

        On the other hand, games like Satisfactory or Elder Scrolls Online, have more FPS with the same settings as on Windows.

        Currently i test Arch and Manjaro in parallel on the same Laptop. But I tend to keep Manjaro and remove Arch. There are light pro’s and con’s, but overall, I’m more happy with Manjaro. But this has nothing to do with you’re issue.

  • alfredalpaca@lemmy.world
    123·
    11 months ago

    nvidia-dkms has never not worked for me. Arch wiki has more info in the nvidia page.

    If this laptop is your friend’s main laptop, I’d recommend going for something other than arch or at the very least preparing before going into it

    • Liz_thestrange@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      11 months ago

      We’re thinking in the possibility of using debian only for games, because he’s been using arch for almost a year and a half and he likes it very much, but we could prefer having the drivers working on arch directly for convenience

  • Rangus97@beehaw.org
    3·
    11 months ago

    If it ends up being Optimus, I’ve found optimus-manager-qt from the aur to be great. You don’t have to mess around with configs and you can make switching or setting to Nvidia permanently really easy with it

    • Liz_thestrange@lemmy.mlOP
      51·
      11 months ago

      He likes arch and the whole point of the existence of distros is that you could take one and adjust it to your needs

      • the_q@lemmy.world
        13·
        11 months ago

        Correct, but when you don’t know how to install the drivers for your GPU you might hit be ready for Arch.

          • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
            5·
            11 months ago

            Every point you made is either patently false (isn’t up to date, won’t even work with gnome) or doesn’t make any sense (installs the bare minimum, so stuff won’t always work).

            The only part we agree on is that arch isn’t for everyone.

            • Fisch@lemmy.ml
              1·
              11 months ago

              I think he meant the application GNOME Software. Only valid point, I would like to be able to install or at least update my arch packages through GNOME Software like I do with flatpaks. Doesn’t have anything to do with the way Arch works tho, it’s just that no one has made a plugin yet that allows this.

              • teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
                2·
                11 months ago

                Ah, I didn’t realize there was actually a piece of gnome software literally called “gnome software” lol. Not confusing at all.