[SOLVED] Best drivers for an Nvidia 8600GTS?

Hi all. I installed Arch for the first time over the weekend. Everything went smoothly until it came time to start X - could never get it to work. I tried lots of different remedies (installing nvidia drivers from the repositories, installing the driver supplied by Nvidia themselves, blacklisting Nouveau, etc.). Nothing worked, and I think now the best thing is to start over clean and try to find where I went wrong (as there's a good chance I've done more harm than good in the process).
So as I nuke and reinstall, I'm wondering which driver will be best for my c. 2006 Nvidia 8600GTS card. Should I install the arch nvidia drivers with
pacman -Syu nvidia nvidia-utils nvidia-libgl libvdpau
or should I use the driver supplied by Nvidia? And if I go with the Nvidia-supplied driver, do I leave nvidia-utils, nvidia-libgl and/or libvdpau, or does it replace those, too?
Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks!
Last edited by jmatthewturner (2014-06-02 14:48:41)

First of all, please, read through the related Wiki pages.
The arch nvidia drivers (packages: nvidia, nvidia-utils, etc) are the ones supplied by nvidia, maintained and packaged by the arch maintainers and packagers.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA
The open source driver is called nouveau.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau

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