# ============================================================================== # 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 # # ============================================================================== # --- GPU Detection --- if [ -n "$(lspci | grep -i 'nvidia')" ]; then # --- Driver Selection --- NVIDIA_DRIVER_CURRENT="current" NVIDIA_DRIVER_LEGACY="legacy" if echo "$(lspci | grep -i 'nvidia')" | grep -q -E "RTX [2-9][0-9]|GTX 16"; then NVIDIA_DRIVER="$NVIDIA_DRIVER_CURRENT" else NVIDIA_DRIVER="$NVIDIA_DRIVER_LEGACY" fi # Check which kernel is installed and set appropriate headers package KERNEL_HEADERS="linux-headers" # Default if pacman -Q linux-zen &>/dev/null; then KERNEL_HEADERS="linux-zen-headers" elif pacman -Q linux-lts &>/dev/null; then KERNEL_HEADERS="linux-lts-headers" elif pacman -Q linux-hardened &>/dev/null; then KERNEL_HEADERS="linux-hardened-headers" fi # force package database refresh sudo pacman -Syu --noconfirm # Initial install packages GENERAL_PACKAGES=( "${KERNEL_HEADERS}" "egl-wayland" "qt5-wayland" "qt6-wayland" ) # Turing (16xx, 20xx), Ampere (30xx), Ada (40xx), and newer recommend the open-source kernel modules # Pascal (10xx), Maxwell (9xx), Kepler (7xx) and older use legacy kernel modules that can only be installed from AUR if [ "$NVIDIA_DRIVER" = "$NVIDIA_DRIVER_CURRENT" ]; then DRIVER_PACKAGES=(nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils libva-nvidia-driver) sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm "${GENERAL_PACKAGES[@]}" "${DRIVER_PACKAGES[@]}" elif [ "$NVIDIA_DRIVER" = "$NVIDIA_DRIVER_LEGACY" ]; then sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm "${GENERAL_PACKAGES[@]}" if ! command -v yay &>/dev/null; then echo "ERROR: Older NVIDIA GPUs require nvidia-580xx-dkms from AUR." echo "Please install yay." exit 1 fi LEGACY_DRIVER_PACKAGES=(nvidia-580xx-dkms nvidia-580xx-utils lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils) yay -S --needed "${LEGACY_DRIVER_PACKAGES[@]}" fi # Configure modprobe for early KMS echo "options nvidia_drm modeset=1" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf >/dev/null # Configure mkinitcpio for early loading MKINITCPIO_CONF="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf" # Define modules NVIDIA_MODULES="nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm" # Create backup sudo cp "$MKINITCPIO_CONF" "${MKINITCPIO_CONF}.backup" # Remove any old nvidia modules to prevent duplicates sudo sed -i -E 's/ nvidia_drm//g; s/ nvidia_uvm//g; s/ nvidia_modeset//g; s/ nvidia//g;' "$MKINITCPIO_CONF" # Add the new modules at the start of the MODULES array sudo sed -i -E "s/^(MODULES=\\()/\\1${NVIDIA_MODULES} /" "$MKINITCPIO_CONF" # Clean up potential double spaces sudo sed -i -E 's/ +/ /g' "$MKINITCPIO_CONF" sudo mkinitcpio -P # Add NVIDIA environment variables to hyprland.conf HYPRLAND_CONF="$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