So i’m helping my best friend to try instaling nvidia gtx 1050 mobile drivers on his laptop, we genualy don’t know what to do and i can figure out how to make it work, so it would be very helpfull if someone could explain me what to do or provive me with a guide to make it work
I’m reading again everything to see for something that could help, it’s look like optimus could be a solution, thanks
Indeed, since it’s a laptop. It uses the iGPU for battery saving graphics and the Nvidia dGPU for performance. That’s hybrid graphics / optimus.
That said, Nvidia is a pain. I always recommend distrohopping until you land on a distro that mostly works for your use case and go from there.
Optimus gets complex quick. You’ll be reading pci bus ids before you know it. Keep the wiki open, go slowly; you got this :)
The best thing about arch is the wiki.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA
That said, on a laptop, you will likely need prime, optimus, or bumblebee depending on your CPU/GPU.
I’m looking right now on optimus, and it’s seems like it’s what we need, we’ll be testing it as soon as possible, thank you very much!