What is better uninstall nouveau of just block it in some way? Once you install your property graphic card

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I’m new in Manjaro. So ,I don’t know many things . I think i have “2 graphic drivers” active. One in my case nvidia and the other the one by default (nouveau) .In other OS we have an option to block that nouveau driver, but I have no idea with Manjaro or ArchLinux

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Hi @Edimion,

As I have it, you only have to install the proprietary because it has priority over the nouveau driver.

I’m not well versed in the GUI Hardware Configuration application, because I don’t use it, but more info can be found here:

To go the CLI route, you can check which drivers are installed by executing:

mhwd --listinstalled
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Thanks, but it’s still kind of confusing because when I wrote that command .It says I have two graphic drivers installed. Although the main issue is to know how many of them are active or not. I’ll try to find in the web. And I’ll update this post once I’ll find an answer.

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As I mentioned:

Which seems to be correct, because I have both installed:

$ mhwd --listinstalled
> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
video-nvidia-575xx            2025.09.29               false            PCI
video-linux            2024.05.06                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!

But I use the Nvidia one:

$ inxi -G
Graphics:
Device-1: NVIDIA GM206 [GeForce GTX 960] driver: nvidia v: 575.64.05
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia
gpu: nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch resolution: 1: 2560x1080~60Hz
2: 2560x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: nvidia,swrast
platforms: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device
API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 575.64.05
renderer: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960/PCIe/SSE2
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.335 drivers: nvidia surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

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The question seems solve, but about the other issue. I think that “criteria” is not because someone is dumb or not ,or even worse if they’re sharing some illegal content in this forum. Decide texts over images should be because they want to help the servers of this forum. Texts are lightweight..

But if it’s about the “proof” of some main issue images should value more in different context or places , not in this forum it seems…, Well, i’ll try to copy&paste text the Preformatted text tool

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The interface, both terminal and GUI, is indeed confusing and a new version is being developed, but is not yet ready.

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@Edimion

How is it solved?

If the resolution was offered by another user, please mark their post as the solution – I’m afraid maring your own post without any context is unsatisfactory.

Marked solution removed.

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