Graphics Cards

Drivers for hardware accelerated desktop rendering, improving performance and fidelity.

Intel

pacman -S mesa vulkan-intel intel-media-driver libva-intel-driver
yay -S intel-hybrid-codec-driver

AMDGPU

pacman -S xf86-video-amdgpu vulkan-radeon mesa libva-mesa-driver mesa-vdpau

Nvidia

Nvidia

Nouveau open source driver

pacman -S libva-mesa-driver mesa-vdpau
yay -S nouveau-fw

Proprietary driver

pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils # Includes Vulkan driver

Include in initramfs for early KMS

1. In /etc/mkinitcpio.conf add the appropriate modules for your hardware to the MODULES=() array:

   Vendor	Kernel Modules
   Intel	i915
   AMDGPU	amdgpu
   Nouveau	nouveau
   NVIDIA proprietary	nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm

2. In case of the NVIDIA proprietary driver, add the following kernel commandline parameter to your boot manager configuration

   nvidia-drm.modeset=1
   

3. Rebuild the kernel image

   mkinitcpio -P