Enabling NVIDIA 555.42.02 in Arch

README.md

NVIDIA Beta Install 555.42.02 BETA under Arch

Install of Arch, using the "NVIDIA Propietry" drivers in archinstall. (using nvidia-dkms)

Then, do the following to switch to latest beta drviers 555.42.02!!

Add the options to modprobe

/etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf

# Enable NVIDIA "Direct Rendering Manager" Mode Setting, to make Wayland compositors function properly.
options nvidia_drm modeset=1

# Additionally, with the driver version 545 and above, you can also set the experimental nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 parameter, 
#which is required to tell the NVIDIA driver to provide its own framebuffer device instead of relying on efifb or vesafb, which do not work under simpledrm.
options nvidia_drm fbdev=1

remove non-beta drivers

we need to ignore deps, as steam will complain

yay -Rd --nodeps nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils

install beta drivers

finally, we can

yay -S nvidia-beta-dkms nvidia-utils-beta lib32-nvidia-utils-beta

REFS.md

reddit discussion

• https://old.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/1cx8739/nvidia_555_driver_now_out_explicit_sync_support/l51093i/

offical release

• https://www.nvidia.com/Download/driverResults.aspx/224751/en-us/v

offical feedback/discussion

• https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/555-release-feedback-discussion/293652

beta AUR package

• https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-beta-dkms

Arch wiki docs

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA#DRM_kernel_mode_setting
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel_module#Using_files_in_/etc/modprobe.d/