Just a quick question: I did a fresh install of EOS using the Titan-Nova ISO just a few days ago (using the amdgpu driver for an RX 580), but now sudo eos-hwtool --install-recommended wants to install a handful of 32-bit driver packages. I can’t think of any reason why I would need them (no Steam, no games). eos-hwtool --check reported to me Missing packages for profile amd_amdgpu: lib32-mesa lib32-vulkan-radeon Honestly, I’m glad to be rid of that 32-bit mess. Should I install these packages anyway?
No, it is mostly only certain games that need that. You can pass --no32 to ignore 32-bit packages.
In the installer, we don’t install the 32-bit packages.
Just as a recommendation, if all the eos-hwtooldoes is to identify the GPU and installs the correct drivers, it might be better to rename it to eos-gputool instead? Everything with a hw prefix might be misinterpreted as an implementation of the popular hwinfo which is not only available on Windows / DOS… but also the implementation from OpenSuse which is available within the extra repositories of Arch.
It is called eos-hwtool because I intended to extend it to support other types of hardware as well in the future.
Also, it already does more than just gpu drivers as it also install virtualization support.
What do you mean by virtualization support?
It installs the client software for the VM if you run it in a virtualized environment.
For example, from withing vmware, it will install open-vm-tools and other packages needed for vmware. It does the same for virtualbox and qemu.
Good tooling, cheers for this!
Even I apparently forgot to install gst-plugin-va on my ThinkPad T14 Gen 1. Had to install the tool first, then checked.
sudo pacman -S eos-hwtool
eos-hwtool --check
(reported gst-plugin-va and the 32-bit stuff missing)
Then tried if it would install only the above, using
sudo eos-hwtool --install-recommended --no32
(installed only gst-plugin-va as expected)
Final check:
$ eos-hwtool --check
Missing packages for profile intel_i915:
lib32-vulkan-intel
lib32-libva-intel-driver
lib32-mesa
$ eos-hwtool --check --no32
All packages installed for profile intel_i915
All good.
Need a GUI wrapper around this or a plugin which wraps this tool and feeds directly into KDE System Info application.
OT: When I read the title, suddenly I hear Sam Tucker’s voice saying ‘Introducing the all new…’ 
Sorry, I can’t stop it 
Same apparently