Hi. I have recently migrated from Windows to Manjaro and I want to install nvidia driver. The problems are that the only option I have seems to be 390xx in Add/Remove software and Hardware configuration.
My current gpu is Gtx 1060 6gb
I tried to install the lastest driver by using this command in the terminal
sudo pacman -S nvidia-dkms nvidia-utils lib32-nvidia-utils nvidia-settings vulkan-icd-loader lib32-vulkan-icd-loader
But it responded with this error
error: target not found: nvidia-settings
warning: vulkan-icd-loader-1.2.188-1 is up to date – reinstalling
warning: lib32-vulkan-icd-loader-1.2.184-1 is up to date – reinstalling
How do I get the lastest or at least a newer Nvidia driver? I’m quite a noob to Linux.
So you should have the possibility to install the latest drivers (in first command we see you have the MHWD database for latest Nvidia drivers, and second command confirms that there are available for your video card). If the GUI doesn’t show the drivers, then do it from the terminal (with the proper tool):
sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia
PS: edit your post, and select your terminal output in your reply, and click the </> button to format it properly instead of it being plain unformated text), or you can manually do it too, like that:
can you clarify your sentence because it is not clear (or take a screenshot and edit your post with it :D), you only have video-nvidia-390xx and video-nvidia, or only video-nvidia-390xx? It is just for my information I saw this issue on a friend computer and just want info.
Ho OK, so from start you could install the latest drivers. You said “the only option I have seems to be 390xx” so I assume that’s what was your only option, but if you “still only have video-nvidia-390xx and video-nvidia” then you had both right from the start available.
You needed to right click the video-nvidia driver, and then click Install, to install the latest drivers.
video-nvidia = the latest drivers
video-nvidia-390xx = the old legacy 390 drivers
Anyway now it’s installed from terminal it is the same.
Also as said above by sawdoctor, do NOT use Pacman or Pamac (the Add/Remove Software program) or external methods to manage your video drivers, Manjaro has tools to do that properly. It is the same for the kernel, use the Manjaro Settings tool to manage them.
I think maybe it’s a little confusing to new users. As manjaro only ships the 2 nvidia drivers 390 and the latest the latest is just listed as video-nvidia (unless it’s a laptop then it’s listed differently). As it’s a rolling release driver it’s easier to just name it video-nvidia rather than changing the name everytime the driver updates