so intel uninstalled now?
revert to nvidia opensource driver and reinstall the nvidia driver from nvidia (propritary)
sudo nvidia-installer -n
please post the output of this here!
pacman -Qs nvidia again to see if packages are cleaned. (post output)
then reinstall the nvidia driver:
sudo nvidia-installer
If commands running successful, you can try reboot to see if nvidia driver loads now, if not w eneed to set some stuff in Grub and for mkinicpio (kernel image)
yes
INFO:root:EndeavourOS Nvidia Installer v3
2020-12-30 18:58:03 [INFO]: EndeavourOS Nvidia Installer v3
INFO:root:All logs will be stored in /tmp/nvidia-installer.log
2020-12-30 18:58:03 [INFO]: All logs will be stored in /tmp/nvidia-installer.log
INFO:root:Updating Nvidia graphics cards database...
2020-12-30 18:58:03 [INFO]: Updating Nvidia graphics cards database...
Fetching NVIDIA graphics card ids from nvidia.com ...
==> Latest New Feature Branch Version: found!
==> Latest Legacy GPU version: found!
Database is already up-to-date.
INFO:root:Installing nouveau driver...
2020-12-30 18:58:07 [INFO]: Installing nouveau driver...
INFO:root:Removing conflicting packages...
2020-12-30 18:58:07 [INFO]: Removing conflicting packages...
INFO:root:Downloading and installing driver packages, please wait...
2020-12-30 18:58:07 [INFO]: Downloading and installing driver packages, please wait...
INFO:root:Removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf file...
2020-12-30 18:58:13 [INFO]: Removing /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf file...
INFO:root:Installation finished. You need to reboot now!
2020-12-30 18:58:13 [INFO]: Installation finished. You need to reboot now!
after that i rebooted
local/egl-wayland 1.1.6-1
EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/lib32-libvdpau 1.4-1
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libvdpau 1.4-1
Nvidia VDPAU library
local/nvidia-dkms 455.45.01-1
NVIDIA drivers - module sources
local/nvidia-installer 3-1
Script to setup nvidia drivers in EndeavourOS
local/nvidia-installer-db 2.4.11-1
Database for the script to setup nvidia drivers in EndeavourOS
local/nvidia-utils 455.45.01-1
NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/xf86-video-nouveau 1.0.16-2 (xorg-drivers)
Open Source 3D acceleration driver for nVidia cards
2020-12-30 19:01:25 [INFO]: EndeavourOS Nvidia Installer v3
2020-12-30 19:01:25 [INFO]: All logs will be stored in /tmp/nvidia-installer.log
2020-12-30 19:01:25 [INFO]: Updating Nvidia graphics cards database...
Fetching NVIDIA graphics card ids from nvidia.com ...
==> Latest New Feature Branch Version: found!
==> Latest Legacy GPU version: found!
Database is already up-to-date.
2020-12-30 19:01:29 [INFO]: Installing nvidia driver...
2020-12-30 19:01:29 [INFO]: Removing conflicting packages...
2020-12-30 19:01:29 [INFO]: Downloading and installing driver packages, please wait...
2020-12-30 19:01:41 [INFO]: Creating /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf file...
2020-12-30 19:01:41 [INFO]: Installation finished. You need to reboot now!
rebooted again, im not sure where we are now
on a sidenote my pc do feels like its a little snappier than before
What does inxi -G say now?
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 driver: i915 v: kernel
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] driver: nvidia v: 455.45.01
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.10 driver: nvidia
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti/PCIe/SSE2 v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 455.45.01
an yet another sidenote, i enabled hardware acceleration on vivaldi and unlike before it doesnt look like its crapping itself like usual, tho that m,ight just be a placedo effect
This looks correct now.
If I am reading that correctly, you are now using the nVidia card with its drivers.
alrighty cool, but does that mean i have to do something else now as well or?
yea no LVM-Pipe anymore, so looking good, what i would set on most cases for nvidi ais the full compositing pipeline to not have tearing on video watching:
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-nvidia.conf
and add this part after the text you have there already:
Section "Screen"
Identifier "nvidia"
Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"
Option "TripleBuffer" "on"
Option "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol" "off"
EndSection
then save file by pressing Ctrl+X
full file will look like this then:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Nvidia Card"
Driver "nvidia"
VendorName "NVIDIA Corporation"
Option "NoLogo" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "nvidia"
Option "metamodes" "nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"
Option "TripleBuffer" "on"
Option "AllowIndirectGLXProtocol" "off"
EndSection
i have added the entry
now before i declare victory i would like to 100% make sure
am i using hardware acceleration now? all steps done and all is over?
Yes, from the result of inxi -G you are using your nVidia card with the proper drivers.
freaking victory!
holy moly what a journey its been in here, id like to thank everybody here that was lending a helping hand.
i had quite a few examples of hwo friendly and helpfull the people here are, now i have yet another to add to the list.
yes now you are using the GPU with the accelerated driver from Nvidia, you can now start Gaming if you like 
For the Browser you can enhance stuff by settings, but mostly this is not needed on chromium based browsers, you can check setting in vivaldi:
vivaldi://gpu
settings can be changed from:
this two could be set to enabled what will improve gpu hardware usage:
Thatās the way you learn. Even if itās sometimes a pain in the a**. I had that so many times during my Linux journey. If everything runs smoothly there is no need to think about and cope with problems.
@joekamprad
Thanks for helping out and solving the problem. You for sure know a lot more about GPU sh** than I do.
Today I was again reminded, that one should never take assumptions as facts. This is not only true, when itās up to problems with computers.
Awesome that it is working now for you. The way I learned Linux was fixing issues on my Laptops. Enjoy your system and hope to see you on the forums. Enjoy!
well, i have to report a slight regression and i didnt want to open a new issues for it.
i accidentally unplugged by second monitor, upon restarting i am getting the same notification about missing hardware acceleration again and even after reproducing the answering steps the message is not going away
P.S: i dont notice too much of a difference with vivaldi despite hardware acceleration turned on.
well uuuuh, this is embarrassingā¦but after reproducing the steps a second time it all worked like a charm, i must have done something wrong the first time.
sorry for bumping this thread up a second time.
Just check and see what inxi -Ga shows to see if it hasnāt loaded the module again. You may have to go through what i did last night with the same issue. @joekamprad has created a wiki for it.
well i just restarted again and the notif is right back
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 630 vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel
bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:3e92
Device-2: NVIDIA GP107 [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
driver: nvidia v: 455.45.01 alternate: nouveau,nvidia_drm bus ID: 01:00.0
chip ID: 10de:1c82
Display: x11 server: X.org 1.20.10 driver: modesetting FAILED: nvidia
resolution: <missing: xdpyinfo>
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 11.0.0 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 20.3.1
compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes
I think you are going to have to do the same as i did last night. Follow the wiki and it works.
Edit: If you donāt understand anything just ask. Itās pretty straight forward and only a couple of steps because you already have the drivers installed itās just not loading them properly.
i have done exactly as described, didnt have a problem with it , it feels like its booting much slower now, the notif is still coming up.