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Switching from Nvidia-DKMS to Nvidia-Open-DKMS (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hello Arch Linux peeps,

I was browsing the Arch wiki and was re-reading the Nvidia sextion, and for my 3090 it states I should be using Nvidia-open/nvidia-open-dkms, however, I am using the proprietary ones.

What is best practice for switching to Nvidia-open-dkms?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just guessing, but - sudo pacman -Sy nvidia-open-dkms?

Should conflict with nvidia-dkms and prompt you to uninstall, so just hit y on that question, then it will rebuild dkms and by that remove the old, closed modules and install the new ones. And then just reboot.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I thought this was going to be the case, just didn't want to blindly do it and cause grief. Thank you.