[SOLVED] Check bios and optimize system.

[keen meadow]

depends on bios, but normally you can update the firmware with a file on a usb with a program inside bios

normally you can't

but it depends on the bios firmware

normally you do not have an internet connection while in BIOS mode

sure you can install dmidecode and run it as root

or w/ sudo

sudo dmidecode | less

np

pipe to less or > it to a file

I think most of what you want is at the top

AMI and you got your revisions so you know where to look to find an update maybe

why do you need to update bios anyway

are you sure you don't just need your cpu microcode

I don't think you should bother

just make sure you got your ucode updating

do you got an intel or amd cpu?

bios update normally won't help your performance

do you have neofetch installed?

easy quick way to check your stuff

are you using grub or systemd boot?

nah it's just the brand of your desktop I think

can you show me ls /boot

yeah you have systemd boot

sorry was on another thread

systemd boot is good, that's what I use

show me ls /boot/loader/entries/

cat /boot/loader/entries/2023-05-31_06-29-14_linux.conf

Okay you got the Intel u code updating

Not much else you can do for firmware

You're good, I wouldn't bother updating bios tbh

Unless there is a security vulnerability and you are port forwarding and locally hosting a web server or something

Which I doubt you are

Bios update won't help your performance on linux

[clever matrix]

Check bios and optimize system.

[keen meadow]

sure you can optimize nvidia

first I need more info

show me pacman -Qs nvidia

don't need dkms

afaik

I don't anyway

but there's some early loading tricks

and a pacman hook that might save your ass later

all good

those are just packages you have

try cat /etc/mkinitcpio.conf | curl -F 'f:1=<-' ix.io

and send me the link it generates

np, seems archinstall did a good job with that

but add nvidia to the beginning of MODULES=(...)

you edited mkinitcpio.conf before?

can you show me ls /etc/pacman.d/hooks

seeing if there is an nvidia.hook in there

if not I'll send you the hook and you can mv it there

it's on arch wiki nvidia page

okay mkdir -p /etc/pacman.d/hooks

and mv this file to it

or if you want just copy it form the arch wiki

contents of nvidia.hook ```
[Trigger]
Operation=Install
Operation=Upgrade
Operation=Remove
Type=Package
Target=nvidia
Target=linux

Change the linux part above and in the Exec line if a different kernel is used

[Action]
Description=Update NVIDIA module in initcpio
Depends=mkinitcpio
When=PostTransaction
NeedsTargets
Exec=/bin/sh -c 'while read -r trg; do case $trg in linux) exit 0; esac; done; /usr/bin/mkinitcpio -P'

just incase

show me uname -a

okay no worries

did you download my file

cd ~/Downloads

ls

should be nvidia.hook there

mv nvidia.hook /etc/pacman.d/hooks

to run the last command you typed as sudo, just do sudo !!

install tldr

example of tldr usage

quick list of common commands

sec

I knew what you meant

in the future, you forget sudo for a command, check if command is right, then just do sudo !!

saves keystrokes

if you need to know how to use a command, check tldr <cmd> like tldr ls for quick examples

if what you need isn't there, then check man <cmd>

[clever matrix]

Check bios and optimize system (nvidia).

[keen meadow]

nothing more that I know of that you can do

unless you plan to program and need gpu acceleration with CUDA

like data science or AI stuff

in that case sudo pacman -S cuda

can also accelerate ffmpeg

other than that you are good

ffmpeg is a tool to modify videos and images

all good

happy linuxing

feel free to ask me if you have any more questions

otherwise

check nvidia wiki for that

it's complicated

... solved

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[SOLVED] Check bios and optimize system.

[keen meadow]

that's if you even need to use it

it's useful for example if you record a video with obs studio, and then want to format it to submit to youtube

idk I haven't used a different kernel besides the main stream one with Arch

never had an issue

with your nvidia settings, you should be golden for anything on steam

maybe get glorious eggroll proton thingy

I don't even have steam right now on my linux cuz I set up windows dual boot for fusion360 and powerbi

but barely use them so thinking about getting rid of windows again

ffmpeg doesn't have anything to do with AI

cuda does

some games will not run in linux because of anti cheat software

that checks for windows stuff

check glorious eggroll

how much ram do you have

depends if you want to hibernate or not

just check neofetch

16 gb

then you don't need swap

or zram