Switching from Nvidia-DKMS to Nvidia-Open-DKMS

2 years ago by Hellmo_luciferrari to c/archlinux

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?

30p87 6 points 2 years ago

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.

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Hellmo_Luciferrari 2 points 2 years ago

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

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Sproutling 4 points 2 years ago

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.

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Hellmo_Luciferrari 1 point 2 years ago

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

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Sproutling 2 points 2 years ago

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

https://github.com/...

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Hellmo_Luciferrari 1 point 2 years ago