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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] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I would not recommend going to the open ones just yet. There are major performance issues with the GSP firmware. You can disable it on the proprietary modules but you can not do so on the open modules since they rely on it for functionality.

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

I was doing some testing on some games I play after switching. Performance on Far Cry 5 was identical for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Game performance is fine. It is the desktop performance that's the issue.

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/538

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/693

https://github.com/NVIDIA/open-gpu-kernel-modules/issues/777

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Thank you for sharing. I have switched back unfortunately.