@shockwave To uninstall a program in Arch… sudo pacman -R optimus-manager and then make sure you have the nVidia driver installed. Then you can follow the rest of @dglt’s guide.
It has worked flawlessly for me for over a year and a half now. First on Manjaro and then on Arch. I mainly keep my laptop running on the nVidia card. I think I have only switched to the Intel card one time. Since this solution will turn off the nVidia card when you are in Intel mode, your battery life will increase. Just keep in mind, that a REBOOT is required when you switch your GPU in use.
That’s fine, 99% of the time I only need to run the intel card anyway, My issue with optimus-manager was lack of turning off the nvidia card when the intel card was active, so…
I shall give it a shot tonight. Anyway, I shall cease threadjacking
Dynamic Kernel Module Support ( DKMS ) is a program/framework that enables generating Linuxkernel modules whose sources generally reside outside the kernel source tree. The concept is to have DKMS modules automatically rebuilt when a new kernel is installed.[2]
If you installed the EnOS with the nVidia driver, then you have the DKMS. That is the default way that EnOS installs the nVidia driver. As stated in their wiki.
No, that method didn’t work for me, so I ended up using the arch wiki method. What is the method to uninstall my current nvidia driver and install the new one?
but I get the following when running linux584. I just updated today and it said it was 5.8.5. I tried that and it gave the same result.
sudo pacman -S linux584-headers acpi_call-dkms xorg-xrandr xf86-video-intel git
error: target not found: linux584-headers
warning: xorg-xrandr-1.5.1-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: xf86-video-intel-1:2.99.917+908+g7181c5a4-1 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: git-2.28.0-1 is up to date -- reinstalling