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Easiest way to Install Nvidia 3D Graphics acceleration driver on ArchLinux

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Hello guys. I used to be a huge fan huge fan of Fedora but now i am running Archlinux as my Primary OS.I had very rough time trying to get Nvidia graphics driver work on my Fedora 23 Box, but with ArchLinux, it was very simple to install it.I will guide you through installtion process and verefication. Nvidia Dedicated Graphics cards have the following general advantages over native Intel graphics card, Just to name a few:
  1. Provides a high-end DirectX 11-compatible graphics solution for Laptops
  2. Assured fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures.
  3. Enjoy smoothest video and DVD playback.
  4. Fast transfer and manipulation of 3D textures  
  5. Faster processing of very large textures resulting in higher performances when zooming and panning through high resolution images
  6. Improved pipeline color compression
  7. It Offersan enriched 3D user interface, increased application performance, and the highest image quality.
  8. Nvidia PureVideo Tehnology
My pc has GeForce GT 750M Nvidia Card, you can see from screenshot below.
 You must have Nvidia Card before using this tutorial,to confirm just run,
lspci | grep -E "VGA|3D"
You should get output similar to one below,if you have Nvidia graphics card in your computer.
Lets now go into installation,Follow steps below:
Make sure your System is updated
pacman -Syyu
Then install nvidia,nvidia-utils,nvidia-settings,xorg-server-devel,opencl-nvidia.
pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-settings xorg-server-devel opencl-nvidia
Once installed, confirm that nouveau module is blacklisted.
cat /usr/lib/modprobe.d/nvidia.conf 
You should get output saying
blacklist nouveau
If not, add "blacklist nouveau" to the file.
NOTE: 
  • It is not necessary to manually blacklist nouveau since installation of nvidia will automatically do it for you.
  • It's not necessary to also generate xorg.conf file with the command nvidia-xconfig.
 Reboot your computer and use nvidia-smicommand which reads temps directly from the GPU without the need to use X at all.
 nvidia-smi
To check Gpu temperature
nvidia-smi -q -d TEMPERATURE 
 Get temperature used by utils:
nvidia-smi --query-gpu=temperature.gpu --format=csv,noheader,nounits
Check to see if Direct rendering is enabled and working
  glxinfo | grep direct
My output is:
Incase you would like to revert back to nouveau driver and mesa 3D acceleration, do
pacman -S mesa mesa-libgl xf86-video-nouveau







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