Likely the most important new options in nvidia-inst are Additional features will be installed based on given options. nvidia-inst detects which driver packages are needed. With nvidia-inst you can install drivers for your Nvidia GPU. If you have used nvidia-installer-dkms before, the help output above should look rather familiar. series (Advanced) Use the given Nvidia driver version (for testing). listseries List Nvidia driver versions supported by nvidia-inst. listopts List options supported by nvidia-inst. legacyrepo Add a third party repository for legacy (470 and 390 series) Nvidia drivers. ignore Ignore all errors (useful for testing only). drivers Show supported NVIDIA driver series for your card. conf Create also file /etc/X11//nf (might be needed on some systems). 32 Install also support for 32-bit apps. v, -version Show version of this software. p, -prime Install also prime render offload. n, -nouveau Install nouveau driver (open source). f, -force Force driver installation even if a nvidia card is not detected.

b, -bumblebee Install bumblebee and Nvidia drivers for optimus cards. Nvidia-inst - help installing Nvidia graphics drivers Here’s the output of the nvidia-inst command with the help option: $ nvidia-inst -h

OverviewĪ new Nvidia driver installer, nvidia-inst, replaces the old nvidia-installer-dkms. Tip: you can still use command nvidia-inst -t to find the needed commands, just be sure to change the package names according to the version (for example, change nvidia-dkms to nvidia-470xx-dkms etc.). IMPORTANT NOTE: if you have added repository into file /etc/nf, please remove it from the file because this repository may include outdated packages. This means certain older Nvidia GPUs should use either the nouveau kernel driver or install the appropriate legacy driver from the AUR (with yay). Latest update: 2023-Apr-03 Important for older Nvidia GPUs!Ĭurrently (2023-Feb) nvidia-inst does not support installing (older) legacy drivers.

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