Eyyy, i just updated all that too!
I switched from a 3070 to an Rx 7900XT on Sunday. Uninstalling all of nvidia shit was great. I used linux-zen so that meant using nvidia-dkms. So happy I don't have to deal with that anymore. And yeah, I use a lot of flatpaks, so removing all of those nvidia drivers was also a great feeling. And now I can use Wayland!
@skulbuny I do not use zen and get the dkms. But honestly, the twice-dkms installation (one for each Kernel) isn't too bad. The real issue for me is with Flatpak. I'm currently in the process of choosing and building new PC. Wish I could afford 7900XT, but together with an entire PC building it gets too expensive for me. Looking forward to AMD!
You can manually remove all of the previous drivers and their GL32 counterparts, your flatpaks will still run as long as you have the newest drivers.
I'm not sure why they don't get caught by the --unused flag, but they are definitely not needed from the flatpaks I've tested with.
Im not a PhD on Arch, but, why are you using Flatpak to install a driver that is available at AUR??? When it comes to drivers, try to stick to your distro ones, unless you really know what you are doing!
That’s how Flatpak works…
Flatpak applications will use the graphics library installed from Flatpak
If you have an nVidia card, you’ll need the nVidia Flatpaks to run applications
If you have Intel/AMD, you’ll get a Mesa Flatpak
Thank you for not blaming maintainers who have no controlover nvidia idiocy.
Also why not mesa?
@uis I didn't blame anyone particularly. I am just upset about the current situation as a Nvidia user. And it's a warning to anyone who thinks about getting a Nvidia card on Linux.
Not sure why Mesa. It does not have the proprietary driver in it, does it?
It does not, that's why I am suggesting it.
@uis Performance is the problem. I play games and there is no alternative to proprietary drivers.
What card you are using?
@uis GTX 1070. The new open source driver from Nvidia does not support the 10x series, if your question should lead to that. But does not matter, because yesterday all PC parts of my new build has arrived and I will set it up this weekend. AMD+AMD now. Finally done with these Nvidia frustration.
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/FeatureMatrix.html says 1070 works fine, but without reclocking(on minimal speed). All thanks to nvidia DRM. And here DRM is not Direct Rendering Manager.
I will set it up this weekend. AMD+AMD now. Finally done with these Nvidia frustration.
Congrats!
@uis I know about nouveau which is community developed. This is what I meant with the performance. It's not near on the same level as the proprietary. For gaming, this is not an option. But I thank you for the suggestions you made.
The best benchmarks I found is for the 20xx series, but look at the results to understand how big the difference is: https://www.phoronix.com/review/opensource-turing-3d/2
Dota 2:
- Noveau gets 7 fps
- Proprietary gets over 100 fps
That's the level of difference we speak about.
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