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.