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New Install Requirements

This doc was written for Intel CPU / NVIDIA architecture with systemd-boot as boot manager.

Further reading:

Drivers

Required for NVIDIA cards. After fresh endeavourOS install, restart into the fallback boot entry.

Install drivers:

$ sudo pacman -S nvidia-inst nvidia-hook
$ nvidia-inst

Reboot with the default boot entry and everything should render normally.

endeavourOS Discovery Page

Resolving iGPU and dGPU

Having both an integrated GPU (iGPU) and dedicated GPU (dGPU) will cause KWin environments to have a stroke.

Why? Because we're not allowed to have nice things Wayland can get confused about which GPU to use sometimes. For instance, waking from a period of deep suspend/sleep into a blank screen.

The solution is configuring KWin to look for the dGPU when possible.

Two fix options:

  • Most destructive option: Disable iGPU in BIOS.
  • Least descructive option: Configure the environment to prioritize dGPU.

Reading:

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