I used Manjaro on my old laptop with Nvidia MX 150 and Intel i5 7300hq and video acceleration worked normally
The only problem was that I got many broken packages and I installed Windows 11 after
I kinda tried endeavour os but the hardware acceleration was so bad I had 75 C on cpu when playing back YouTube , I tried new drivers and broke it
I wish I knew how to make video acceleration work on this os…
I’d honestly go back to Windows 11 if I don’t manage cuz windows 10 is EOL almost, but my external SSD is just 120 gb
How would hardware acceleration work for my laptop based on the specs ( especially in browsers like brave or Firefox), does it automatically work like on windows 11 ?
Based on my Intel cpu do I get the right drivers out of the box?
Yes you should have little problem getting it to work on Garuda. i have used an even lower model Nvidia card and it worked fined.
However the nvidia drivers do have some issues lately on Garuda, and you might have to install Garuda on open source drivers to start of with, i have to, and then install nvidia drivers after the welcome update finishes, and Garuda offers to do so.
Nevertheless, and here is the tricky part, lately, at times, the default nvidia drivers will not compile the nvidi DKMS modules rightly. So watch the terminal output installing the drivers, and see if it throws up any errors.
(i get an error 10 on my RTX 4080, GTX 2060, and RTX 3050 with the default drivers installing Garuda, and have to install the nvidia-all drivers to correct these problems. i also use the LTS kernel as back up for any potential updating errors.)
This should work fine for you with an old card. However if it does not, and you see errors while compiling, i share you a code to install nvidia-all drivers, so you can pick and choose between available drivers, and find one that works with your card. ( make sure you do NOT REBOOT until you have done that.)
#install nvidia all (latest down) driver!
#if you are reinstalling a different nvidia-all driver, delete the nvidia-all folder first!
rmdir $HOME"/nvidia-all"
#download drivers into nvidia-all folder
git clone https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all.git
#selecting the installation folder to work from
cd nvidia-all
# installing the drivers. (Say yes to deleting the faulty DKMS modules and recompile them, #watching for errors.)
makepkg -si
#rebuilding the kernel modules.
sudo dracut-rebuild
#update grub
sudo update-grub
I am not sure about OOTB drivers, and it depends on your HW.
But, there is a very good article about Hardware video acceleration at Archwiki.
Even if the right drivers are not installed OOTB, you just install the relevant packages, depending on your hardware.
I am using webrender gpu accelerated graphics on my all amd system. anyway for firefox browser about:support in the address bar and scroll down to that is how you find out. do we have any older nvidea users to get some kind of idea about his chances?
It depends on your hardware, and the software you have installed to activate it. My experience with hardware acceleration in Steam is that it works, as does Firefox, however to get openshot video editor to use some of their hardware acceleration options, i had to install different software to activate it. Not sure about your case. i would think you have a reasonable chance after installing proprietary drivers, better than open source i would think, but i might have that wrong.
