Driver promt / location

[lukesmithxyz]

Driver promt / location

[LukeSmithxyz]

A driver? What do you mean? A driver for what?

[NicTanghe]

The driver wich i am referring to is the video card driver.

check if nvidia or amd
then ask Nouveau or propreitairy nvidia driver.
And download driver accordingly / use adjusted config files.

might make a fork if i can find where all is located

(Ok i diden't mean to react with a heart emoji and no reply it ws just becouse it was unclear in terminal browser how to react.)

[LukeSmithxyz]

If someone pushes a quick test to determine what video card driver is needed, I'll merge it, but I don't particularly know how to determine which one is appropriate for everyone's computer.

[NicTanghe]

i have created some code but the final part is failing (if and is not working) also right now it only works for newer gfx cards.

Edit: updated code

#!/bin/sh

#currently only works for relativly new models.

#function calling


#maybe more options with older drivers but i wanted to also just make it check automatically.
Option1="Empty"
Option2="Empty" 
Driver="Empty"
Card="Empty"
 
if lspci | grep -q NVIDIA; then
  Option1="Proprietary NVIDIA driver"
  Option2="Open source nouveau driver"
  Card="Nvidia"
elif lspci | grep -q Amd; then
  Option1="Proprietary Catalyst driver"
  Option2="Open Source AMDGPU driver"
  Card="Amd"
elif lspci | grep -q Intel; then
	 instal="xf86-video-intel"
 else
 	echo It can not be!
fi

echo $Option1
echo $Option2

 cmd=(dialog --separate-output --checklist "Select Gfx driver using space:" 22 76 16)
 options=(1 "$Option1" on    # any option can be set to default to "on"
          2 "$Option2" off)
 choices=$("${cmd[@]}" "${options[@]}" 2>&1 >/dev/tty)
 clear
 for choice in $choices
 do
     case $choice in
         1)
             echo "First Option"
             selection="1"
             ;;
         2)
             echo "Second Option"
             selection="2"
             ;;
     esac
done

if [ "$Card"=="Amd" ] && [ "$selection"=="1" ];then
  instal="Catalyst"
elif [ "$Card"=="Amd" ] && [ "$selection"=="2" ];then
  instal="AMDGPU"
elif [ "$Card"=="Nvidia" ] && [ "$selection"=="1" ];then
  instal="NVIDIA"
elif [ "$Card"=="Nvidia" ] && [ "$selection"=="2" ];then
  instal="nouveau"
else echo you found a bug
fi

pacman -S $instal

[kaitsubaka]

this code never install the intel driver, because you don'nt use the var Driver in the pacman -S at last

[NicTanghe]

@kaizetsubaki i didn't really care about intel drivers yet.
Also, the script simply didn't work.

@LukeSmithxyz Did u close because u fixed or because of inactivity on my part ?
I ended up manually installing it at the time.
And later switched to windows now i wanna dual boot but lost a lot of my know-how.