[Feature Request]: Option to choose the nvidia driver according to card

[jain-arihant-2002]

Feature Request

Description

User have option to choose which driver they want to use for their nvidia card (could be open source ,proprietary or nvidia-beta)

Use Case

This feature could help new arch users to select correct driver for there card and ensure that all driver related settings are completed by script already

Proposed Solution

You can create 3 scripts and let user choose which script will be selected in .install.sh script

[Anshul-exe]

That would be amazing and very useful

[JaKooLit]

Moving this into discussion

[srdjanpavlovic]

"You can create 3 scripts and let user choose which script will be selected in .install.sh script"

Maybe no need for 3 separate scripts, main install script could just ask for nvidia driver options IF nvidia hardware is present on system. Those options could be 1) noveau 2) nvidia-current 3) nvidia-beta 4) nvidia-dkms

Also this nvidia options could be added in preset.sh script if user decides to call it as an argument for install.sh script.

Also, option for a particular version of nvidia driver could be added, if, for some resason, user need to install some particular version (older) driver.

The script then could check if that particular package exists in arch repos, if it does, store it in variable for later installing, if it does not, just tell user that that version does not exist and to provide another version...

If package exists can be checked with yay or paru which are both already available.

[JaKooLit]

issue is support

Im only aware of nvidia-dkms cause its what I use

if I add legacy drivers and nvidia-open, user messed up, they come and get support

and I wont have support. Or say it didnt work, they come and blame my script

That is why I added a note which drivers it woul install and option wether to configure or not

But I may add an option to install nvidia-open since I heard those drivers are already ok

[srdjanpavlovic]

noveau (open nvidia drivers) are working usually fine, but when it comes to performance... they are still not near binary closed nvidia drivers... sad but true :(

You are right about support, adding these options makes script more prone to all kinds of errors...

[JaKooLit]

nouveau is not same as nvidia-open

nouveau does not support wayland and unmaintained

nvidia-open is a bit behind drivers from my understanding

[srdjanpavlovic]

Ah, ok.. I'm on AMD card for a long time, when I sad open drivers I ment nouveau, I did not know there are some other open nvidia driver efforts... it is hard as nvidia does not provide any good info, and writing those drivers is mostly based on reverse engenering :( anyway, thanks for clarification.

[JaKooLit]

thats why I dont to offer different driver cause I may get lots of issues than help

[srdjanpavlovic]

Yes, makes sense. Cheers and keep up the great work! :)