No clue how to use and enable nvidia on laptop after running "nvidia-inst" command accidently

Info first, lmk if I need to share more:-
Laptop is HP Pavillion Gaming with Ryzen 5600h (with integrated graphics) and Nvidia 1650 Mobile (turing iirc)
Running Niri on wayland.

So when I was checking out the docs for nvidia-ints I accidently pressed enter twice and it went ahead and installed a whole lot of things. I think I saw “open source driver”, seems like it got
Then I tried running nvidia-inst –drivers I get
nvidia-driver-supported-branches: error: cannot determine the version of the latest available package nvidia-beta-dkms
But --listseries gives me 580 and I checked with nvidia-smi and I got driver version 580.95.05

Everything is fine right?

Also, when I searched for envycontrol in yay it said out of date on 2025-06-19. That’s just because of difference to the upstream code right?

You can run a test

nvidia-inst -t

to see if nvidia-inst thinks all is OK. If not, it will show which commands it would run if you allow by running without option -t.

envycontrol seems to be version 3.5.2-1. Not sure why someone marked it as outdated.

Note that there are other GPU switching apps like e.g. optimus-manager.
See this for more info.

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