Installing NVIDIA drivers for my GTX-650

General system Newbie
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I’ve been reading to install the drivers for my NVIDIA GTX 650 card.

This is the information I get:

$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
26:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 362b
	Kernel driver in use: nouveau

$ nvidia-inst -t
2023-02-25 13:53:14: Info: Running: nvidia-inst v23-1
2023-02-25 13:53:14: Info: Command line: nvidia-inst -t
2023-02-25 13:53:14: Info: Selected mode: nvidia
NVIDIA card id: 0fc6
Fetching driver data from nvidia.com ...
2023-02-25 13:53:16: Info: Installing packages: nvidia-470xx-dkms nvidia-470xx-utils nvidia-470xx-settings
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COMMANDS TO RUN:
    pacman -Syuq --noconfirm --noprogressbar --needed nvidia-470xx-dkms nvidia-470xx-utils nvidia-470xx-settings 
   nvidia-installer-kernel-para nvidia-drm.modeset=1 add
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2023-02-25 13:53:16: Error: sorry, currently nvidia-inst does not support installing Nvidia series 390 and 470 drivers.

I understand the nvidia-470xx* packages would have to be installed with yay, as they are found in AUR.
I don’t undersatand what is nvidia-installer-kernel-para …
Is there a guide for dummies on how to do it?

Thanks.

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@manuel

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nvidia-installer-kernel-para nvidia-drm.modeset=1 add

This is to add the DRM Modesetting option to the kernel parameters …this is neede3d for Optimus (hybrid) systems to be abble to switch discrete GPU on and of…
And makes sure in general to load this early in boot … aölso good to have for all other nvidia gpus to laod drivers and options early as possible.

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That is actually a command. You can just copy and paste that into the terminal.

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indeed missed that part :wink:

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also this could be changed to show yay instead of pacman.
At least as long as there is no repo holding these as packages…

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:ok_hand:t4: Thanks @joekamprad and @dalto

$ lspci -k | grep -A 2 -E "(VGA|3D)"
26:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] (rev a1)
	Subsystem: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd Device 362b
	Kernel driver in use: nvidia

Perfect !

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then lots of accelerated 3d fun with EndeavorOS :enos:

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