Graphics Cards

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

The Linux graphics stack consists of several components, but the main component is the mesa package.

Manufacturer	OpenGL	Vulkan	libva
Intel	mesa	vulkan-intel	intel-media-driver, libva-intel-driver
AMD	mesa	vulkan-radeon	libva-mesa-driver
NVIDIA	mesa, nvidia	nvidia-utils	libva-mesa-driver, nvidia-utils

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-vdpauvulkan-radeon

Nvidia

Nouveau open source driver

pacman -S mesa 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