Nvidia-all - Frogging-Family drivers (guide - installation)

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So many times we talked about this… Garuda tried add nvidia-tkg into the chaotic-aur, but results was terrible, me too faced issues, BUT if you install nvidia-all manually it’s much better!

nvidia-all can bring significantly more performance!

There is a guide how to install nvidia-all

  1. git clone https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all.git
  2. cd nvidia-all
  3. makepkg -si

Installer will run, you will see this:

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    `:sdNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNds:`
       `-+shdNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNdhs+-`
             `.-:///////:-.`

What driver version do you want?
  1.Vulkan dev: 455.50.14
  2.465 series: 465.27
  3.460 series: 460.73.01
  4.455 series: 455.45.01
  5.450 series: 450.119.03
  6.440 series: 440.100 (kernel 5.8 or lower)
  7.435 series: 435.21  (kernel 5.6 or lower)
  8.430 series: 430.64  (kernel 5.5 or lower)
  9.418 series: 418.113 (kernel 5.5 or lower)
  10.415 series: 415.27  (kernel 5.4 or lower)
  11.410 series: 410.104 (kernel 5.5 or lower)
  12.396 series: 396.54  (kernel 5.3 or lower, 5.1 or lower recommended)
  13.Custom version (396.xx series or higher)
choice[1-13?]: 2

Build the dkms package or the regular one?
1.dkms (recommended)
2.regular
choice[1-2?]: 1

  1. I used latest drivers.
  2. I used dkms (Why? If you have dkms, you can switch kernels).

Hit enter, just install everything what’s installer want it.
When installation is completed, use following commands.

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

How to update nvidia-all? Just repeat process again. (Yes, it mean delete nvidia-all folder, use git clone command and everything again)

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Does this work with optimus-manager? I can't boot into GUI without optimus-manager, but I also can't switch to nvidia with optimus-manager. Very confusing.

Edit: Bit the bullet and tested it. It's working! I don't recall it asking for which driver to install, just my password. But it's working for now, so I'm happy. Will there be an option to add a hook to update minitcpio and update grub automatically when kernels or thenvidia drivers are updated?

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Yes, there is a way to add it, but I prefer do manually, you will 100% know everything is (re)-generated.

But, if you want to use hooks, there are links to Arch Wiki.
pacman - ArchWiki and mkinitcpio - ArchWiki

What about performance? Do you feel it better?

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Well... I couldn't even get to use nvidia with the garuda tools, so yes, much better. :smiley:

Just tried playing Wildlands and gave me good fps. Guild Wars 2 wasn't very good, but I reckon that's because of the version of wine I was using. The whole system seems snappy.

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Wow, that looks amazing I guess.
I'm pretty happy with the Garuda out-of-the-box for my old 750ti for now and I'm worried to mess it up if I do anything... xDD
But I hope this solves other major problems for everyone else (and me if anything). Thanks for the tip, Soong!! =3

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And very easy... I usually scared with things from Frog community or Arch Linux world... but I recommend start with that, you'll get more experience... I think about transition to pure Arch Linux now.

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With the Spotty Eagle update i was having issues with the Nvidia driver installing with the latest Kernel not sure why or what the issues were but i ran this before doing the update and the issue was solved. I choose #2 from the menu you showed 465. IDK if missing vulkan would be a problem or not but if so it looks like it is really easy to just switch it out :). I even made a quick sh file to run to update the driver when needed.

#!/bin/sh
rmdir nvidia-all
git clone https://github.com/Frogging-Family/nvidia-all.git
cd nvidia-all
makepkg -si
sudo mkinitcpio -P
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
cd ..
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How do you remove the installed packages and configs specific to nvidia-all if you wanna reinstall or try something from outside nvidia-all?

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Good question. I am not sure. The stock installed drivers were removed it seems after i did the commands from this post. I do not know if that means they were uninstalled or what. i am not very familiar with arch stuff yet just starting out myself :slight_smile:

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How to remove package? Just use pacman, if you don't know how to use pacman, read Arch Wiki.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/pacman

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Well thats a dumb and unhelpful response. FYI I already uninstalled the vulkan drivers I originally installed from nvidia-all. However I do not know if there were any remnants left in my system. I admit my original post wasn't super specific so I will edit that as well.

Anyways nvidia-all installs a bunch of packages along with custom configs. I wanna be able to remove everything and start from scratch and best way to do that would be something provided by the author. I was hoping I to find something because I coudln't see anything on their github. Now this very well is a side effect of my windows days because on windows there was a specific utility that you run when uninstalling the nvidia drivers because graphics drivers on windows are notorious for not uninstalling cleanly.

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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113394

"The packages that you need to remove are nvidia and nvidia-utils. If you receive such dependency warnings, you can force removal with pacman -Rd nvidia nvidia-utils. You can then install xf86-video-nouveau and nouveau-dri if you want."

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