Howto install nvidia drivers

archlinux

identify the your current nvidia card driver:

lspci -k|grep -EA2 VGA

blacklist nouveau drivers:

cat > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-nouveau.conf << EOF
blacklist nouveau
options nouveau modeset=0
alias nouveau off
EOF

install nvidia latest drivers:

pacman -S nvidia-dkms \
nvidia-utils opencl-nvidia \
nvidia-settings lib32-opencl-nvidia \ 
lib32-virtualgl lib32-nvidia-utils \
lib32-mesa-libgl

reboot system:

reboot

when reboot use the following command to identify your nvidia drivers version:

cat /proc/driver/nvidia/version