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- **fileName**: nvidia_setup
- **Created on**: 2025-10-18 01:37:53

This document details configurations for NVIDIA drivers
on an Arch Linux system, specifically covering a Pacman
Hook, a Boot Loader Entry, and the mkinitcpio
configuration.

1. Pacman Hook Configuration

Path: /etc/pacman.d/hooks/nvidia.hook

This hook ensures the initramfs is updated whenever the
nvidia or linux packages are installed, upgraded, or
removed, guaranteeing the NVIDIA kernel module is always
correctly included.

[Trigger]
Operation=Install
Operation=Upgrade
Operation=Remove
Type=Package
Target=nvidia
Target=linux

[Action]
Description=Updating NVIDIA module in initcpio
Depends=mkinitcpio
When=PostTransaction
NeedsTargets
Exec=/bin/sh -c 'while read -r trg; do \
case $trg in linux*) exit 0; esac; done; \
/usr/bin/mkinitcpio -P'

2. Boot Loader Entry

Path: /boot/loader/entries/arch.conf

This configuration focuses on NVIDIA driver performance
and stability by setting specific kernel parameters.
It is an example entry generated by archinstall.

# Created by: archinstall
# Created on: 2025-08-09_00-39-14
title   Arch Linux
linux   /vmlinuz-linux
initrd  /initramfs-linux.img
options root=PARTUUID=9e583bd9-bd32-4aef-9962-01ef36dc9cbd \
zswap.enabled=0 \
nvidia.NVreg_OpenRmEnable=1 \
nvidia_drm.modeset=1 \
nvidia_drm.fbdev=1 \
nvidia.NVreg_EnableGpuFirmware=0 \
nvidia.NVreg_PreserveVideoMemoryAllocations=1 \
rw rootfstype=btrfs \
intel_idle.max_cstate=4

3. mkinitcpio Configuration

File: mkinitcpio.conf

This configuration includes essential NVIDIA kernel
modules in the initial RAM disk image to ensure they
are loaded early in the boot process.

# vim:set ft=sh
# MODULES
MODULES=(btrfs nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)

# HOOKS - kms has been removed to avoid conflict
HOOKS=(base udev autodetect microcode modconf keyboard keymap \
consolefont block filesystems fsck)

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