# ============================================================================== # 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 # All older drivers are directed to wiki if echo "$NVIDIA" | grep -q -E "RTX [2-9][0-9]|GTX 16"; then DRIVER_PACKAGES=(nvidia-open-dkms nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils libva-nvidia-driver) sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm "${GENERAL_PACKAGES[@]}" "${DRIVER_PACKAGES[@]}" elif echo "$NVIDIA" | grep -q -E "GTX 9|GTX 10"; then sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm "${GENERAL_PACKAGES[@]}" LEGACY_DRIVER_PACKAGES=(nvidia-580xx-dkms nvidia-580xx-utils lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils) yay -S --needed --noconfirm "${LEGACY_DRIVER_PACKAGES[@]}" else echo "Your GPU is unsupported by NVIDIA or Arch." echo "See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA" exit 1 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