Early Loading of NVIDIA Modules for Dracut

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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For my Nvidia driver https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-470xx-dkms the pinned message recommends this https://github.com/korvahannu/arch-nvidia-drivers-installation-guide guide.

Followed every instruction just one question https://github.com/korvahannu/arch-nvidia-drivers-installation-guide?tab=readme-ov-file#add-early-loading-of-nvidia-modules

For EOS, what to do for Dracut ?
I guess I need to create a .conf file in /etc/dracut.conf.d/ directory. But what should be the contents inside the file?

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Iā€™m not sure about all that, to be honest. I used nvidia-inst to install drivers. It worked quickly and without issues.

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For dracut all you have to do is add a file under /etc/dracut.conf.d with something like the following in it.
force_drivers+=" nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm "
Then you have to generate you initramfs, but I think the EndeavourOS installer already does that for you?

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ThankYou Iā€™ll test.

Then you have to generate you initramfs, but I think the EndeavourOS installer already does that for you?

As mentioned in the guide, Iā€™ll do that anyway ;D
dracut-rebuild

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How do I install nvidia-inst ? Seems not available in official or AUR repo.

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If you have installed latest release, it should be installed already.

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Yes Iā€™m on latest but most likely not upgraded from latest EOS iso.

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Then you should be able to use it though terminal.

Iā€™m not certain what you mean ā€œnot upgradedā€. EOS is rolling-release (because Arch) so system should be ā€œupgradedā€ if you have installed it.

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nvidia-inst -h
bash: nvidia-inst: command not found

package not installed.

Is it provided from EOS repo? I remember I used to have this but probably I removed at some point (~2 years ago)

Installed it again

sudo pacman -S nvidia-inst