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How to get my nvidia card to work in arch linux on my ASUS g75vw with a gtx660m?

JXHN
Level 7

ive been trying to get it all working, a member of the linux discord server told me nvidia-smi was using my igpu, ive installed the nvidia-470xx-dkms packages form the aur ive tried nvidia prime and optimus but i cant get it to use my gtx660m (kde plasma runs at 2fps due to this so im using xfce4) heres my neofetch

 

-` Xx_JXHN_xX@archlinux
.o+` --------------------
`ooo/ OS: Arch Linux x86_64
`+oooo: Host: G75VW 1.0
`+oooooo: Kernel: 6.11.1-zen1-1-zen
-+oooooo+: Uptime: 1 hour, 17 mins
`/:-:++oooo+: Packages: 1339 (pacman), 7 (flatpak)
`/++++/+++++++: Shell: bash 5.2.37
`/++++++++++++++: Resolution: 1600x900
`/+++ooooooooooooo/` DE: Xfce 4.18
./ooosssso++osssssso+` WM: Xfwm4
.oossssso-````/ossssss+` WM Theme: Default
-osssssso. :ssssssso. Theme: Adwaita-dark [GTK2], Breeze [GT
:osssssss/ osssso+++. Icons: elementary [GTK2], breeze [GTK3
/ossssssss/ +ssssooo/- Terminal: xfce4-terminal
`/ossssso+/:- -:/+osssso+- Terminal Font: Monospace 12
`+sso+:-` `.-/+oso: CPU: Intel i7-3610QM (8) @ 3.300GHz
`++:. `-/+/ GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
.` `/ Memory: 3112MiB / 15952MiB

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JXHN
Level 7

thanks to everyone in advance