Switching from Integrated Graphics to Nvidia

I’ve found in the Garuda Settings Manager>Hardware Configuration that I can install the appropriate nvidia drivers. Within this tool under the nvidia card I only see video-nvidia-prime-render-offload and video-nvidia-dkms that arent installed. What is istalled is video-linux and video-modesetting which I’d guess is for the integrated intel graphics. Usually I go for the nueveau open source drivers. Since those drivers are not listed, should I go down the manual road on the arch wiki?

Also, is this garuda wiki doc still applicable to current Garuda?

System:
Kernel: 6.13.5-zen1-1-zen arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 14.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=12edeed8-3e42-4c9d-9eb0-a57fb1a1e537 rw rootflags=subvol=@
quiet resume=UUID=2c4ab031-f3cd-41ea-a65f-0f276e36076b loglevel=3 ibt=off
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.5 tk: Qt v: N/A wm: kwin_wayland dm: SDDM
Distro: Garuda base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 21DC002YUS v: ThinkPad P1 Gen 5
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 21DC002YUS v: SDK0T76528 WIN serial: <filter>
part-nu: LENOVO_MT_21DC_BU_Think_FM_ThinkPad P1 Gen 5
uuid: f78d564c-3233-11b2-a85c-f839b5f3a646 UEFI: LENOVO
v: N3JET42W (1.26 ) date: 09/25/2024
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 71.1 Wh (88.7%) condition: 80.2/90.1 Wh (89.1%)
power: 30.9 W volts: 17.5 min: 15.5 model: SMP 5B11B79217 type: Li-poly
serial: <filter> status: charging cycles: 33
CPU:
Info: model: 12th Gen Intel Core i9-12900H socket: U3E1 bits: 64
type: MST AMCP arch: Alder Lake gen: core 12 level: v3 note: check
built: 2021+ process: Intel 7 (10nm ESF) family: 6 model-id: 0x9A (154)
stepping: 3 microcode: 0x436
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 8 cores: 14 threads: 20 mt: 6 tpc: 2
st: 8 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1.2 MiB desc: d-8x32 KiB, 6x48 KiB; i-6x32
KiB, 8x64 KiB L2: 11.5 MiB desc: 6x1.2 MiB, 2x2 MiB L3: 24 MiB
desc: 1x24 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 400 min/max: 400/4900:5000:3800 base/boost: 2500/5000
scaling: driver: intel_pstate governor: powersave volts: 1.2 V
ext-clock: 100 MHz cores: 1: 400 2: 400 3: 400 4: 400 5: 400 6: 400 7: 400
8: 400 9: 400 10: 400 11: 400 12: 400 13: 400 14: 400 15: 400 16: 400
17: 400 18: 400 19: 400 20: 400 bogomips: 116736
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Vulnerabilities: <filter>
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P GT2 [Iris Xe Graphics] vendor: Lenovo
driver: i915 v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Xe process: Intel 10nm
built: 2021-22+ ports: active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1, DP-2, DP-3, DP-4,
HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:46a6 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GA103M [GeForce RTX 3080 Ti Mobile] vendor: Lenovo
driver: nouveau v: kernel non-free: 550-570.xx+ status: current (as of
2025-04; EOL~2026-12-xx) arch: Ampere code: GAxxx process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
built: 2020-2023 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4
speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none empty: DP-5,DP-6,HDMI-A-2
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2420 class-ID: 0300
Device-3: Chicony Integrated Camera driver: uvcvideo type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-8:3 chip-ID: 04f2:b74f
class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
Display: unspecified server: X.Org v: 24.1.6 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.6
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: modesetting,nouveau
alternate: fbdev,intel,nv,vesa dri: iris,nouveau gpu: i915 display-ID: :1
screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1600 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 677x423mm (26.65x16.65")
s-diag: 798mm (31.43")
Monitor-1: eDP-1 model: BOE Display 0x0ae0 built: 2021 res:
mode: 2560x1600 hz: 165 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 189 gamma: 1.2
size: 344x215mm (13.54x8.46") diag: 406mm (16") ratio: 16:10
modes: 2560x1600
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 1 drv: iris
device: 2 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: wayland,device-0
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.1.3-arch1.3
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel Iris Xe Graphics (ADL
GT2) device-ID: 8086:46a6 memory: 61 GiB unified: yes
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.313 layers: 5 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel
Iris Xe Graphics (ADL GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 25.1.3-arch1.3
device-ID: 8086:46a6 surfaces: N/A device: 1 type: cpu name: llvmpipe
(LLVM 20.1.6 256 bits) driver: mesa llvmpipe v: 25.1.3-arch1.3 (LLVM
20.1.6) device-ID: 10005:0000 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake PCH-P High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: sof-audio-pci-intel-tgl alternate: snd_hda_intel, snd_soc_avs,
snd_sof_pci_intel_tgl bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:51c8 class-ID: 0401
Device-2: NVIDIA vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16
bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:2288 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.13.5-zen1-1-zen status: kernel-api tools: N/A
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.4.5 status: n/a (root, process) with:
1: pipewire-pulse status: active 2: wireplumber status: active
3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Alder Lake-P PCH CNVi WiFi driver: iwlwifi v: kernel
bus-ID: 00:14.3 chip-ID: 8086:51f0 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp0s20f3 state: up mac: <filter>
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel AX211 Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 bus-ID: 1-10:5 chip-ID: 8087:0033
class-ID: e001
Report: btmgmt ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up address: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.86 TiB used: 17.02 GiB (0.9%)
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD PC
SN810 SDCQNRZ-2T00-1001 size: 1.86 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B
logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 tech: SSD serial: <filter>
fw-rev: 61560101 temp: 44.9 C scheme: GPT
SMART: yes health: PASSED on: 221d 16h cycles: 254
read-units: 68,629,465 [35.1 TB] written-units: 104,812,961 [53.6 TB]
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 1.8 TiB size: 1.8 TiB (100.00%) used: 17.02 GiB (0.9%)
fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 616 KiB (0.2%) fs: vfat block-size: 512 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1
maj-min: 259:1
ID-3: /home raw-size: 1.8 TiB size: 1.8 TiB (100.00%)
used: 17.02 GiB (0.9%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
maj-min: 259:2
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 1.8 TiB size: 1.8 TiB (100.00%)
used: 17.02 GiB (0.9%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
maj-min: 259:2
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 1.8 TiB size: 1.8 TiB (100.00%)
used: 17.02 GiB (0.9%) fs: btrfs block-size: 4096 B dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2
maj-min: 259:2
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 68.71 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 62.46 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: 100
comp: zstd avail: lzo-rle,lzo,lz4,lz4hc,deflate,842 max-streams: 20
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 73.0 C mobo: 56.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): cpu: 7812 fan-2: 6896
Info:
Memory: total: 64 GiB note: est. available: 62.46 GiB used: 6.13 GiB (9.8%)
igpu: 64 MiB
Processes: 447 Power: uptime: 50m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: s2idle
wakeups: 0 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot, suspend, test_resume
image: 24.97 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil, power-profiles-daemon,
upowerd Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1373 libs: 399 tools: octopi,paru Compilers:
gcc: 15.1.1 Shell: garuda-inxi (sudo) default: Bash v: 5.2.37
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.38
Garuda (2.7.2-1):
System install date:     2025-06-14
Last full system update: 2025-06-14 ↻
Is partially upgraded:   No
Relevant software:       snapper NetworkManager dracut
Windows dual boot:       No/Undetected
Failed units:

They are already installed (provided by the kernel):

Yes, consider that at the moment “you have an NVIDIA GPU without the proprietary driver”.

Note that the final symbol means that a reboot is pending after the latest update.

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