radix007 / stopnvidiainarch

Guide to stop Nvidia in Arch and Manjaro.

Stop Nvidia In Arch And Manjaro

For Discrete Nvidia GPU ::

• This is for when you want to stop Nvidia GPU in your Arch/Manjaro Linux completely

• I am using Dell G3 3579(Nvidia Geforce GTX 1050)

• This method will increase the battery's performance.

• Also, any lag and bootup issues will be fixed after doing this.

• This guide will help you automate Arch Linux's wiki script.

• You can download the same bash script from the Arch Wiki.

• You can use either of the methods. The recommended one is DisableNvidia.sh.

Steps if you want to use DisableNvidia.sh ::

• After cloning, go to the downloaded folder. Open a terminal there.
• Enter the following in the terminal ::

 chmod +x DisableNvidia.sh

• To run the script, enter this ::

  ./DisableNvidia.sh

• You will be asked to enter your password and once you enter it your Nvidia GPU will be disabled permanently .
• You should see something like this .

Steps if you don't want to use DisableNvidia.sh ::

• After cloning the files, copy the StopNvidiaInArch.sh to /usr/bin/
• Now make this file executable
• To Make any file executable just do this chmod +x filename. In this case ::

  chmod +x StopNvidiaInArch.sh

• Now we have to create and enable systemd service

• To do this just copy the file you have downloaded(Name of the file StopNvidiaInArch.service) to the directory /etc/systemd/system/

• Now you just have to enable the service on startup. To do that just enter the following commands ::

sudo systemctl enable StopNvidiaInArch.service

• Output for the above command will be :

Created symlink /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/StopNvidiaInArch.service → /etc/systemd/system/StopNvidiaInArch.service.

• To start it right now

sudo systemctl start StopNvidiaInArch.service

• To check the status of the service

sudo systemctl status StopNvidiaInArch.service

• Output Of status

Reference List

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hybrid_graphics#Fully_Power_Down_Discrete_GPU
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Systemd
• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkottman/acpi_call/master/examples/turn_off_gpu.sh

Contributing ::

Please check out the contributing.md guide on how you can actively participate in the development of this project.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the License.md file for more details.