Installation
GPU Drivers
How Genesi detects and installs GPU drivers, and how to switch them.
Genesi uses CachyOS's hardware detection (chwd) to install the right GPU driver automatically during installation — covering most NVIDIA (including older Pascal/Maxwell cards) and AMD GPUs.
Check your GPU
lspci -k | grep -A 3 -E "VGA|3D"NVIDIA
If you hit a black screen or need to (re)install the proprietary driver:
sudo pacman -S nvidia nvidia-utils
sudo rebootGenesi is CachyOS-based, so prefer the CachyOS NVIDIA packages over plain Arch ones where a choice exists — mixing the two can leave you with a broken X/Wayland session.
AMD
AMD GPUs work out of the box with the open amdgpu driver. For Vulkan/compute:
sudo pacman -S mesa vulkan-radeonHybrid / dual GPU
For laptops with both integrated and discrete GPUs, see the CachyOS dual-GPU
guidance — the same tooling (chwd, PRIME render offload) applies on Genesi.