I can't install drivers on my NV mx150 graphics card

Please see the following and edit your topic first post accordingly with proper information and what error you get. The screenshot is useless.

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Hi @RebornUA, and welcome!

In order for us, or anyone for that matter, to be able to provide assistance, more information is necessary. To that end, please see:

Hope you manage!


:bangbang: Tip: :bangbang:

To provide terminal output, copy the text you wish to share, and paste it here, surrounded by three (3) backticks, a.k.a grave accents. Like this:

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Or three (3) tilde signs, like this:

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This will just cause it to be rendered like this:

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Instead of like this:

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Alternatively, paste the text you wish to format as terminal output, select all pasted text, and click the </> button on the taskbar. This will indent the whole pasted section with one TAB, causing it to render the same way as described above.

Thereby improving legibility and making it much easier for those trying to be of assistance.


:bangbang::bangbang: Additionally

If your language isn’t English, please prepend any and all terminal commands with LC_ALL=C. For example:

LC_ALL=C bluetoothctl

This will just cause the terminal output to be in English, making it easier to understand and debug.


In addition to the above, both what me and @bogdancovaciu requested, please also provide the output for:

mhwd --list

a Post with only a screenshot does not help at all.

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LC_ALL=C sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300                                             
[sudo] password for rebornua: 
> Using config 'video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime' for device: 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:5917) Display controller Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620
> Installing video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime...
Sourcing /etc/mhwd-x86_64.conf
Has lib32 support: true
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/db/pci/graphic_drivers/hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime/MHWDCONFIG
Processing classid: 0300
Sourcing /var/lib/mhwd/scripts/include/0300
:: Synchronizing package databases...
 core downloading...
 extra downloading...
 community downloading...
 multilib downloading...
error: target not found: linux516-nvidia
Error: pacman failed!
Error: script failed!
mhwd --list                                                               1 ✘  5s  
> 0000:01:00.0 (0302:10de:1d12) Display controller nVidia Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2023.03.23               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime            2023.03.23               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee            2023.03.23               false            PCI
          video-nvidia            2023.03.23               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-470xx            2023.03.23               false            PCI
    video-nvidia-390xx            2023.03.23               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI


> 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:5917) Display controller Intel Corporation:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime            2023.03.23               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-470xx-prime            2023.03.23               false            PCI
video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-390xx-bumblebee            2023.03.23               false            PCI
           video-linux            2018.05.04                true            PCI
     video-modesetting            2020.01.13                true            PCI
            video-vesa            2017.03.12                true            PCI
OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64 
 Host: TM1701 
Kernel: 6.1.22-1-MANJARO 
Uptime: 1 hour, 47 mins 
Packages: 1128 (pacman), 14 (flatpak) 
Shell: bash 5.1.16 
Resolution: 1920x1080 
DE: Plasma 5.27.3 
WM: KWin 
Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] 
Icons: [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3] 
Terminal: konsole 
CPU: Intel i5-8250U (8) @ 3.400GHz 
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce MX150 
GPU: Intel UHD Graphics 620 
Memory: 3878MiB / 7829MiB

There’s the error and it clearly states why it can’t install it. It’s because you are using and EOL kernel. You need to install a still-supported, newer one. I recommend 5.15 or otherwise 6.1 as that’s set to be the next LTS:

To install version 5.15:

sudo mhwd-kernel --install linux515

To install version 6.1:

sudo mhwd-kernel --install linux61

Reboot into the newer kernel, and remove the non-working one:

sudo mhwd-kernel --remove linux516

For more info about booting into another kernel, see:

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sudo mhwd -a pci nonfree 0300                                                       
[sudo] пароль до rebornua: 
> Skipping already installed config 'video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime' for device: 0000:00:02.0 (0300:8086:5917) Display controller Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620