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.

  • LeFantome@programming.dev
    8·
    15 hours ago

    There is so much misinformation and bad advice in this thread.

    Thankfully, there are a few that correctly just say install nvidia-580xx-dkms

    You can install new kernels after that. There is nothing to manually manage. They do not have to be LTS.

    • Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      14 hours ago

      Thanks! It seemed to me that this’d mean I had to run something like my custom kernel which I have to forever maintain myself.

      Thanks for pointing me to the correct solution. I figure out implementation.