Can't find nvidia driver pkg

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Which is the nvidia driver, linux-cachyos-nvidia-open is only 8.18MiB

$ paru -Qs nvidia
local/egl-gbm 1.1.3-1.1
    The GBM EGL external platform library
local/egl-wayland 4:1.1.21-1.1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform
local/egl-wayland2 1.0.1-1.1
    EGLStream-based Wayland external platform (2)
local/egl-x11 1.0.5-1.1
    NVIDIA XLib and XCB EGL Platform Library
local/lib32-nvidia-utils 595.71.05-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities (32-bit)
local/lib32-opencl-nvidia 595.71.05-1
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA (32-bit)
local/libva-nvidia-driver 0.0.16-1.2
    VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as a backend
local/libvdpau 1.5-4.1
    Nvidia VDPAU library
local/libxnvctrl 595.71.05-1
    NVIDIA NV-CONTROL X extension
local/linux-cachyos-nvidia-open 7.0.3-1
    nvidia open modules of 595.71.05 driver for the linux-cachyos kernel
local/linux-firmware-nvidia 1:20260309-1
    Firmware files for Linux - Firmware for NVIDIA GPUs and SoCs
local/nvidia-prime 1.0-5
    NVIDIA Prime Render Offload configuration and utilities
local/nvidia-settings 595.71.05-1
    Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver
local/nvidia-utils 595.71.05-1
    NVIDIA drivers utilities
local/opencl-nvidia 595.71.05-1
    OpenCL implemention for NVIDIA
$ paru -Qi linux-cachyos-nvidia-open 
Installed From  : cachyos-znver4
Name            : linux-cachyos-nvidia-open
Version         : 7.0.3-1
Description     : nvidia open modules of 595.71.05 driver for the linux-cachyos kernel
Architecture    : x86_64_v4
URL             : https://github.com/CachyOS/linux-cachyos
Licenses        : MIT AND GPL-2.0-only
Groups          : None
Provides        : NVIDIA-MODULE
Depends On      : linux-cachyos=7.0.3-1  nvidia-utils=595.71.05  libglvnd
Optional Deps   : None
Required By     : None
Optional For    : None
Conflicts With  : linux-cachyos-nvidia
Replaces        : None
Installed Size  : 8.18 MiB
Packager        : CachyOS <admin@cachyos.org>
Build Date      : Sat 02 May 2026 12:30:15 AM CST
Install Date    : Sat 02 May 2026 02:56:34 PM CST
Install Reason  : Explicitly installed
Install Script  : No
Validated By    : Signature
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paru -Qs nvidia-open-dkms

or use pacman

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Neither nvidia-open nor nvidia-open-dkms has been installed.
Does it mean cachyos installer doesn’t install nvidia dirver automatically?

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I don’t recall having to manually install Nvidia drivers (5070 Ti). What does nvidia-smi show?

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AI says:

Recommendation for CachyOS: You do not need nvidia-open-dkms. linux-cachyos-nvidia-open is optimized for your distribution and kernel. It is smaller and updates faster because it doesn’t need to recompile. The size difference is just the source code and build tools being omitted.

I think it’s ok by default.

Thanks all the same.