I’m running CachyOS, and having an Nvidia card, I’m using their Nvidia-specific kernel. I know this 3060 won’t last forever, and I’m planning to upgrade to an AMD card for a better overall experience.
Is there anything I should be aware of regarding the kernel or other compatibility when switching brands? Can I simply plug in the new one and run pacman -Syu?
Sidenote: I will plan around my PSU’s output, so no need to advise regarding physical compatibility.
I’ve just always followed the Arch wiki, and never tried using Vulkan without vulkan-radeon on my one PC with an AMD card. The wiki states: “Install the mesa package, which provides both the DRI driver for 3D acceleration and VA-API/VDPAU drivers for accelerated video decoding.” and “For Vulkan support install vulkan-radeon (lib32-vulkan-radeon for 32-bit applications).”.The vulkan page itself says:
To run a Vulkan application, you will need to install the vulkan-icd-loader package (and lib32-vulkan-icd-loader from the multilib repository if you also want to run 32-bit applications), as well as Vulkan drivers for your graphics card(s). There are several packages providing a vulkan-driver and lib32-vulkan-driver: AMD: vulkan-radeon (or lib32-vulkan-radeon) Intel: vulkan-intel (or lib32-vulkan-intel) NVIDIA: there are two implementations: nvidia-utils (or lib32-nvidia-utils) - NVIDIA proprietary vulkan-nouveau (or lib32-vulkan-nouveau) - NVK (part of Mesa project)That’s interesting. You generally don’t need to manually install that. You’ve prompted me to play around with arch once I return from the most beautiful city in the world.
Which distro and dgpu are you using, if you don’t mind me asking?