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Arch Linux runs on an RTX Spark laptop with CUDA access to 116 GiB
The author reports that Arch Linux works on the 128GB ASUS laptop and exposes the same 116.0 GiB memory pool to the OS and CUDA as Windows. The setup and patches are relevant to engineers experimenting with local models, quantization, and fine-tuning.
- What
- A developer installed Arch Linux ARM on an ASUS ProArt P16 laptop with NVIDIA GPU support.
- How
- The setup combines NVIDIA kernel work with fixes for ACPI and framebuffer support, a patched keyboard driver and a custom audio machine driver.
- Why it matters
- The system reports the same 116.0 GiB memory pool to Linux and CUDA, enabling local experimentation with open-weight models, quantization and fine-tuning.
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