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Archinstall installs nvidia-open-dkms instead of nvidia-open, even on default linux kernel.

Open Blayung opened this issue 4 months ago • 5 comments

Arch wiki says that nvidia-open-dkms is a package for custom kernels, and that if using the default kernel you should only install nvidia-open.

Blayung avatar Sep 21 '25 10:09 Blayung

It's fine to use nvidia-open-dkms on the regular kernel, it will just be rebuilt every time your kernel updates.

dg4l avatar Sep 22 '25 12:09 dg4l

I use linux-lts and I've had better luck with multi-monitor support on hyprland using nvidia-open-dkms rather than nvidia-open-lts. I'm not sure what the exact issue was, but I remember having to change to the dkms variant.

gchamon avatar Sep 22 '25 12:09 gchamon

It's fine to use nvidia-open-dkms on the regular kernel, it will just be rebuilt every time your kernel updates.

So it's suboptimal.

Blayung avatar Sep 22 '25 12:09 Blayung

So it's suboptimal.

I suppose you could say that, if it matters to you so much it's a very trivial change. see archinstall/archinstall/lib/hardware.py

dg4l avatar Sep 22 '25 13:09 dg4l

@dg4l Not that I care much, it just kinda bothers me when I see it lmao. Always better to report it.

Blayung avatar Sep 23 '25 14:09 Blayung