So Arch just moved to NVIDIA 590 and dropped Pascal support. I’m running an older Predator laptop with a GTX 1070 (Pascal) + Intel iGPU. After the update, NVIDIA is basically gone, but Intel fallback still gives me a working desktop.

This machine was always a fallback gaming laptop, not my primary system, but I’d still like to make reasonable use of it.

My current situation: Arch Linux with KDE Plasma, Intel graphics works fine, NVIDIA 1070 is unusable unless I go legacy, Wayland currently working only because I’m on Intel.

From what I understand: NVIDIA legacy (580xx) = X11 only, Wayland + Pascal is basically dead.

Arch will keep moving kernels, so legacy drivers mean ongoing maintenance…

(picture related).

What I’m trying to decide:

Stick with Arch, install legacy NVIDIA, switch to X11, accept maintenance?

Ditch NVIDIA entirely, run Intel + Wayland, and treat the 1070 as dead weight?

Switch to a slower-moving distro (Debian?) just to keep X11 + NVIDIA working longer?

Or is there a better hybrid setup people are actually happy with?

I’m not looking to resurrect Pascal forever, just trying to choose the least stupid path for a secondary machine without fighting my system every update.

Curious what others with GTX 10xx laptops are actually doing in practice.

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
    101·
    21 hours ago

    I usually give detailed responses, but honestly the correct response here is RTFM. The short answer is to install nvidia-580xx-dkms.

    Arch wiki is such a great place that has the answer to most technical questions you might want to ask. I strongly dislike the idea that Arch is for advanced users, but it does expect you to read the documentation (which is why I dislike stuff like Manjaro that try to make Arch “accessible”, but end up leaving people in similar situations without even knowing where to look for the solution to their issues).

    • Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      14 hours ago

      This is actually difficult for me. When the wiki starts talking about custom kernels, I don’t fully understand it yet. I’m learning, but that’s where things stop being obvious.

      ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      Anyway thanks for pointing me to the exact location. My struggle is knowing what to implement / what the correct solution is. See, now that I know install nvidia-580xx-dkms is the right thing and won’t break things I know what to do. (if that makes sense?)