# ============================================================================== # Hyprland NVIDIA Setup Script for Arch Linux # ============================================================================== # This script automates the installation and configuration of NVIDIA drivers # for use with Hyprland on Arch Linux, following the official Hyprland wiki. # # Author: https://github.com/Kn0ax # # ============================================================================== NVIDIA="$(lspci | grep -i 'nvidia')" # --- GPU Detection --- if [ -n "$NVIDIA" ]; then # Check which kernel is installed and set appropriate headers package KERNEL_HEADERS="$(pacman -Qqs '^linux(-zen|-lts|-hardened)?$' | head -1)-headers" # Turing (16xx, 20xx), Ampere (30xx), Ada (40xx), and newer recommend the open-source kernel modules # Pascal (10xx) and Maxwell (9xx) use legacy branch that can only be installed from AUR if echo "$NVIDIA" | grep -qE "RTX [2-9][0-9]|GTX 16"; then PACKAGES=(nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils libva-nvidia-driver) elif echo "$NVIDIA" | grep -qE "GTX 9|GTX 10"; then PACKAGES=(nvidia-580xx-dkms nvidia-580xx-utils lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils) else echo "Your GPU is unsupported by NVIDIA or Arch." echo "See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA" exit 1 fi pacman -S --needed --noconfirm "$KERNEL_HEADERS" "${PACKAGES[@]}" # Configure modprobe for early KMS sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf </dev/null options nvidia_drm modeset=1 EOF # Configure mkinitcpio for early loading sudo tee /etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/nvidia.conf </dev/null MODULES+=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm) EOF # Add NVIDIA environment variables to hyprland.conf HYPRLAND_CONF="$HOME/.config/hypr/hyprland.conf" if [ -f "$HYPRLAND_CONF" ]; then cat >>"$HYPRLAND_CONF" <<'EOF' # NVIDIA environment variables env = NVD_BACKEND,direct env = LIBVA_DRIVER_NAME,nvidia env = __GLX_VENDOR_LIBRARY_NAME,nvidia EOF fi fi