Nvidia 555 Stable

General system Kernel, boot, graphics & hardware
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Check the Arch wiki for Nvidia driver installation and whatnot.

As a TL;DR: EOS provides an utility called nvidia-inst, which attempts to install the drivers for you automatically. The way you install them manually is as follows:

  • There are three packages available: nvidia, nvidia-lts and nvidia-dkms:
    • nvidia is for the standard Linux kernel;
    • nvidia-lts is for the LTS release of the standard Linux kernel;
    • nvidia-dkms is for custom kernels.
      Best is to just install nvidia-dkms, if you have a modern card. Check the Arch wiki for more details.
  • After installing it, you will need to set a kernel parameter to activate. To do this on EOS, do the following
    1. Open terminal as root
    2. Go to /boot/loader/entries/
    3. Find the appropriate .conf file (there will be one for each kernel you have installed)
    4. In the options line, add nvidia-drm.modeset = 1
    5. Save the file and rebuild the images using # reinstall-kernels
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