Nvidia and drivers

General system Newbie
1

Hello everyone.

I installed EndeavourOS on a fairly recent Acer laptop with two graphics cards, one of which is an NVIDIA GeForce MX450. Since EndeavourOS set up the other card, a TigerLake-LP GT2, even though during installation I asked it to install the NVIDIA drivers, now I’d like to actually use the NVIDIA card. The result of

nvidia-inst -t

is

2025-10-04 16:42:01: Note: 0000:01:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation TU117M [GeForce MX450] [10de:
1f97] (rev a1)
2025-10-04 16:42:01: Note: Currently installed packages related to Nvidia:
2025-10-04 16:42:01: egl-gbm 1.1.2.1-1
2025-10-04 16:42:01: egl-wayland 4:1.1.20-1
2025-10-04 16:42:01: egl-x11 1.0.3-1
2025-10-04 16:42:01: libvdpau 1.5-3
2025-10-04 16:42:01: linux-firmware-nvidia 20250917-1
2025-10-04 16:42:01: nvidia 580.82.09-7
2025-10-04 16:42:01: nvidia-hook 1.5.2-1
2025-10-04 16:42:01: nvidia-inst 25.7.2-1
2025-10-04 16:42:01: nvidia-utils 580.82.09-1
2025-10-04 16:42:01: Info: nvidia-inst version 25.7.2-1
2025-10-04 16:42:01: Info: Command line: nvidia-inst -t
2025-10-04 16:42:01: Info: Selected mode: nvidia (Nvidia’s open source)
2025-10-04 16:42:01: Info: Installing packages: dkms nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-settings
2025-10-04 16:42:01: Info: Removing packages: nvidia
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
COMMANDS TO RUN:
pacman -Rs --noconfirm --noprogressbar --nodeps nvidia
pacman -Syuq --noconfirm --noprogressbar --needed dkms nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-settings
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I’d like to install an open driver, so that it’s compatible with my setup: KDE + rEFInd + SecureBoot enabled ( by shim-signed ).

Which driver should I install?

Thanks for the advice.

2

Looking at the output, you just need to run sudo nvidia-inst. It will remove the closed drivers and install the open ones.

3

Did you need sudo? Didn’t it give at some point a message that it was not supposed to done so? There’s of course some time I did it, so I may be wrong on this… :thinking:

4

To be honest, I can’t remember, it’s been over a year since I used it. I figured it would tell you if it didn’t.

5

Yeah, it probably should do that if my memory serves me right. :thinking:

6

Maybe I didn’t give enough details: since I’m working with Secure Boot enabled, I need to know if the NVIDIA open DKMS modules need to be signed. I’ve already signed the kernel with shim-signed — do I need to do the same for the NVIDIA modules?