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NVIDIA driver

How to install the NVIDIA driver on an ASUS laptop with both Intel and NVIDIA cards. This enables the NVIDIA card only and disables the Intel card. This is mostly based on the Arch Linux guide.

  1. Install the NVIDIA driver (and kernel module) from Slackbuilds.org
  2. Install the xf86-video-nouveau-blacklist. Can be done via slackpkg.
  3. Configure the NVIDIA card in the Xorg configuration.
  4. Configure the KDE login manager (aka SDDM).

Steps

Install the NVIDIA driver:

$ export MAKEFLAGS=-j8
$ sqg -p nvidia-driver
$ sbopkg -i nvidia-driver

Disable the nouveau driver:

$ slackpkg install xf86-video-nouveau-blacklist

Configure the NVIDIA card in the Xorg configuration. Create the file /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-nvidia-drm-outputclass.conf with the following contents:

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "intel"
    MatchDriver "i915"
    Driver "modesetting"
EndSection

Section "OutputClass"
    Identifier "nvidia"
    MatchDriver "nvidia-drm"
    Driver "nvidia"
    Option "AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration"
    Option "PrimaryGPU" "yes"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/nvidia/xorg"
    ModulePath "/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
EndSection

Configure KDE login manager by editing the file /usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup and adding the following commands to the top of the file.

$ xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
$ xrandr --auto