Installing nvidia proprietary driver for dom0

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I updated this guide for NVIDIA driver on dom0 last summer, it worked well for me on 4.1 and 4.2

Nvidia proprietary driver installation

You can use rpm packages from rpmfusion, or you can build the driver yourself. Word of Caution Proprietary (NVIDIA/AMD) drivers are known to be sometimes highly problematic, or completely unsupported. Radeon driver support is prebaked in the Qubes kernel (v4.4.14-11) but only versions 4000-9000 give or take. Support for newer cards is limited until AMDGPU support in the 4.5+ kernel, which isn’t released yet for Qubes. Built in Intel graphics, Radeon graphics (between that 4000-9000 range), an…

Make sure to follow the “Manual installation” section