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Nvidia
Nvidia is a vendor for graphics cards.
Setup
For Nvidia GPUs to work install the nvidia and the nvidia-utils package.
If you want to easily configure the monitors as described in a later section of
this file you can also install nvidia-settings.
There is no initial setup for a xorg.conf in /etc/X11 needed
(except for a multiple GPU/APU setup).
Configuration
A basic configuration can be achieved by running nvidia-xconfig.
Usage
Most configuration and changes require the use of nvidia-settings.
Change monitor configuration
In nvidia-setting monitors can be dragged and dropped to your liking.
After that you have to save the configuration to the
X window manager configuration file
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.
Avoid screen tearing
In nvidia-settings under
X Server Display Configuration select your display and click on Advanced
and select either Force Composition Timeline or
Force Full Composition Timeline.
Pascal-GPUs and New Drivers
On some operating systems like Arch Linux the newer versions of
drivers are not compatible with Pascal GPUs anymore as explained in
the german Arch forum.
This is due to the drop of support for these cards from Nvidias site.
If Pascal-GPUs are still used some minor changes need to be performed and some packets need to be
replaced.
On Arch Linux-based systems this can be achieved by replacing the packages nvidia-open and
nvidia-open-utils with nvidia-580xx-dkms, nvidia-580xx-utils and lib32-nvidia-580xx-utils.
If upgrading from a Pascal-GPU to a newer version this change needs to be undone.
After the packages are changed it is important to rebuild the initial ramdisk and reboot the system.