Arch Linux - Nvidia Discrete Graphics Card

nvidia.md

Enabling the discrete graphics card

Install the following packages:

sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-prime nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils mesa-utils lib32-mesa-utils nvidia-settings

Remove the following from HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf:

kms

Add the following kernel parameters in /etc/default/grub:

nvidia_drm.modeset=1
nvidia_drm.fbdev=1

Recreate grub config:

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Regenerate the initframs:

sudo mkinitcpio -P

Force-enable Wayland(optional):

sudo ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules

Reboot

Disabling the discrete graphics card

• Uninstall all packages
• Add kms to HOOKS in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf
• Remove kernel parameters from /etc/default/grub
• Recreate grub config
• regenerate the initframs

Remove symlink:

sudo rm /etc/udev/rules.d/61-gdm.rules

Reboot