Planning to install a Nvidia driver.
First visit the Arch Wiki and read the guidelines.
Nvidia-all from Frogging Family
https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all This video outlines a detailed walkthrough of troubleshooting and setting up NVIDIA drivers on a Linux system running Wayland, specifically for an NVIDIA graphics card that is around 10 years old. The speaker discusses...
Use envycontrol to switch between intel/amd and your nvidia graphical card
Always start by reading the Arch Wiki from top to bottom. General page Arch Wiki Nvidia Dedicated page for Nvidia Optimus Envycontrol You can find many Nvidia tutorials on this website. I will always be restricted to the hardware in my possesion. Other users have...
Nvidia – Failed to open Light Display Manager – lightdm issue – switch to sddm
One of the reasons of this error message Failed to open light display manager is that the lightdm is really failing and that is not the Nvidia driver or the configs that are behind it. Solution Switch to SDDM and rule out if it is a lightdm issue or not. sudo pacman...
Nvidia – Failed to open Light Display Manager – timing issue
One of the reasons of this error message Failed to open light display manager is that the kernel (in this case linux) and the Nvidia packages were not downloaded/synced at the same time. Solution Wait or find another server and update via TTY. Then reboot.Freeze your...
Installing the nvidia driver on a hybrid graphical system with pacman and yay – msi gt70 – geforce gtx670m
The video shows the steps we take after a clean install. You can type every command or you can put them in a text file and run that one script. The latter is more convenient.I have a personal github to install elements after every clean install at github. Here is the...
The creation of a conky – AUR-Nvidia – Nvidia drivers must be functional
Follow this video and you will be able to create your own conkies. We use the 'new' lua code convention in our example.
Are there any ArcoLinux conkies that show Nvidia info
We use the command 'pt' or catfish to search for the word 'nvidia' in our conkies folder. Then we copy/paste the conky and change anything we like. 'skel' is an alias some of us use. It will override the conkies from ArcoLinux but your own conkies. Renaming them is...
Install the nvidia package with the linux kernel with the use of pacman and Calamares
TIP : use nvidia-xconfig after the reboot We let Calamares do the hard work and after the installation we reboot and we type sudo nvidia-xconfig in the terminal and we reboot again. Done.Wondering what driver to take, read the Arch Wiki....
Installing the official nvidia driver for a GeForce GTX970
In this other article we install via pacman. That is the preferred way. Then pacman can actually manage the package. In this article we will use the .run file from nvidia.com.First look at the beneath to understand the steps we will have to take. The first video is...
Installing the official nvidia driver on a hybrid graphical system – msi gt70 – geforce gtx670m
In the other article we install via pacman. That is the preferred way. Then pacman can actually manage the package. In this article we will use the .run file from nvidia.com.Together we go over some of the websites that contain information about Nvidia....
Finding drivers for your nvidia card and installing nvidia 340
We are going to look at this old computer and put the latest ArcoLinux on it. Then we decide to install nvidia drivers. But which ones... We start always at the Arch wiki website and read. Together we analyze that we need the 340 package. We install it and reboot. On...
How to install steam on ArcoLinux
The motto of ArcoLinux is Learn, have fun and enjoy. This is the have fun part for sure. We install steam via the terminal. The desktop you install steam on does not matter. You will need a login and password for steam and it will ask a second password so that your...
Fix for lightdm failed to start – calamares – only for nvidia users – 19.12.15 iso
This is just for people, who have a Nvidia card and need the nvidia package. The isos of 19.12.15 have now the possibility to install the nvidia package from within the calamares installer. During our tests every single installation worked fine as the linux kernel and...
Fix for Failed to start lightdm manager
Are you using the arcolinux-nemesis script?Are you using the arcogetstarted script?Did you read what the code does?what is the target audience for these scriptsJUST ERIK DUBOISThe nemesis is a personalized script for Erik Dubois on the computers of Erik Dubois. You...
Installing the nvidia driver for GEFORCE GTX970 via nvidia .run – November 2019
In the other article we install via pacman. That is the preferred way. Then pacman can actually manage the package. In this article we will use the .run file from nvidia.com. First watch the first video. You will be on your own in a TTY later to be able to install the...
Installing the nvidia driver for GEFORCE GTX970 via pacman – November 2019
Once I knew what package I needed to install for my GEFORCE GTX970 it was smooth sailing all the way. sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-settings Then you reboot and hope for the best like we all do. In my case that is all it took.
fix for failed to start light display manager
Option 1 update kernel and nvidia packagesGo to tty with CTRL + ALT + F2 Login Type in the terminal the following commands updateskelupall then type sudo update-mirrors then again type updateskelupall This means we have updated our computer. The second time we first...
Which nvidia cards are supported by which nvidia driver
I just found, by accident really, a nice list of all the graphical cards from Nvidia and their drivers. If the link is gone, we still have this page. https://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_32667.html May this list help someone The Arch wiki about nvidia is here :...
How to fix any Arch Linux based system like ArcoLinux, Antergos, Manjaro, …
We concentrate all our arch-chroot information in this article.https://www.arcolinuxd.com/10-use-the-power-of-arch-chroot-when-your-computer-crashes/THIS PROCEDURE IS THE SAME ON ALL ARCH BASED SYSTEMSThe goal of this article is to show you an alternative way to fix...
How to install the nvidia driver and how to fix the system if it breaks – April 2018
We concentrate all our arch-chroot information in this article.https://www.arcolinuxd.com/10-use-the-power-of-arch-chroot-when-your-computer-crashes/We are working on a motherboard of Asus P8Z77-V LE and have an Nvidia Geforce GTX970. In this tutorial we have seen how...
How to find out what driver to install for your Nvidia card – April 2018
This video is about finding out what driver you should install for your nvidia graphical card. First of all there might be NO NEED to install the nvidia proprietary driver since the opensource nouveau driver might be functioning super. It is only for educational...
Installing ArcoLinux on MacBookPro5,4
Let me first start with a video with all the settings of your laptop that you should remember BEFORE installing any Linux distro on your mac laptop. Write it down, or like I did, film it and keep it safe. We can now check later what hardware is in there. We can try to...
How to install nvidia drivers on ArcoLinux – November 2017
We do not need to install the nvidia drivers per se. We can but there is no must. Unless you experience problems with your display when working or gaming. Many of the hardware display cards are supported by the nouveau driver i.e. opensource driver. In...