diff --git a/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/omarchy_hooks.conf b/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/omarchy_hooks.conf
index a8e39629..68408b00 100644
--- a/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/omarchy_hooks.conf
+++ b/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/omarchy_hooks.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,45 @@
 HOOKS=(base udev plymouth keyboard autodetect microcode modconf kms keymap consolefont block encrypt filesystems fsck btrfs-overlayfs)
 
+# The proprietary NVIDIA driver does early KMS itself: nvidia.conf (written by
+# install/hardware/nvidia.sh, sourced before this file) early-loads nvidia_drm
+# with modeset=1. Keeping the kms hook on such a system makes autodetect pull
+# in nouveau — and ~100 MB of its GSP firmware — for a driver that never runs.
+# Drop kms only when nvidia_drm is early-loaded and NVIDIA owns every display
+# controller. Hybrid systems keep kms: their iGPU still needs it for early
+# KMS at the LUKS prompt. So does anything unexpected, like a PCI tree that
+# cannot be read.
+#
+# This reads MODULES midway through mkinitcpio's drop-in sourcing, so a
+# later-sorting drop-in that resets MODULES outright — surface_device_modules.conf
+# does — would strip nvidia_drm after kms was already dropped. Every machine
+# Omarchy writes such a file for carries an Intel iGPU, which keeps kms here
+# through the scan below; keep it that way.
+if [[ " ${MODULES[*]:-} " == *" nvidia_drm "* ]]; then
+  _omarchy_nvidia_gpu=0
+  _omarchy_other_gpu=0
+  for _omarchy_pci in "${OMARCHY_PCI_DEVICES_PATH:-/sys/bus/pci/devices}"/*; do
+    if [[ ! -r $_omarchy_pci/class || ! -r $_omarchy_pci/vendor ]]; then
+      # An unreadable device could be another GPU. Inconclusive keeps kms.
+      _omarchy_other_gpu=1
+      continue
+    fi
+    [[ $(<"$_omarchy_pci/class") == "0x03"* ]] || continue
+    if [[ $(<"$_omarchy_pci/vendor") == "0x10de" ]]; then
+      _omarchy_nvidia_gpu=1
+    else
+      _omarchy_other_gpu=1
+    fi
+  done
+  if ((_omarchy_nvidia_gpu && !_omarchy_other_gpu)); then
+    _omarchy_hooks=()
+    for _omarchy_hook in "${HOOKS[@]}"; do
+      [[ $_omarchy_hook == "kms" ]] || _omarchy_hooks+=("$_omarchy_hook")
+    done
+    HOOKS=("${_omarchy_hooks[@]}")
+  fi
+  unset _omarchy_nvidia_gpu _omarchy_other_gpu _omarchy_pci _omarchy_hooks _omarchy_hook
+fi
+
 # Bundle vconsole.conf so Plymouth uses the configured keyboard layout at the
 # LUKS prompt, but only when that layout types Latin letters. Passphrases are
 # Latin characters, so bundling a Hebrew/Greek/Cyrillic/Arabic layout would
diff --git a/migrations/1786605598.sh b/migrations/1786605598.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ce9e9c0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/migrations/1786605598.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+echo "Rebuild the initramfs so NVIDIA-only systems shed nouveau's unused GSP firmware"
+
+# omarchy_hooks.conf now filters the kms hook out of HOOKS when the proprietary
+# NVIDIA driver handles early KMS and NVIDIA owns every display controller
+# (#6790). The settings package deploys that conditional, but nothing rebuilds
+# the initramfs for a mkinitcpio drop-in change, so affected machines would
+# carry ~100 MB of dead nouveau firmware until their next kernel update.
+# Rebuild once, and only where the conditional actually changes the outcome:
+# evaluate the installed drop-ins the way mkinitcpio does and check that kms
+# dropped out. A user-edited omarchy_hooks.conf (pacman leaves the packaged
+# update as a .pacnew) keeps kms and correctly skips the rebuild.
+
+hooks_conf="${OMARCHY_MKINITCPIO_HOOKS_CONF:-/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/omarchy_hooks.conf}"
+nvidia_conf="${OMARCHY_MKINITCPIO_NVIDIA_CONF:-/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/nvidia.conf}"
+rebuild_marker="${OMARCHY_KMS_REBUILD_MARKER:-/var/lib/omarchy/migrations/1786605598}"
+
+omarchy-cmd-present limine-mkinitcpio || exit 0
+[[ -f $hooks_conf && -f $nvidia_conf ]] || exit 0
+
+# The rebuild is machine-wide, but migrations run once per user: a marker
+# records completion so another user's run does not repeat it, while a missing
+# marker still retries an interrupted rebuild.
+[[ ! -e $rebuild_marker ]] || exit 0
+
+# Source the drop-ins in mkinitcpio's order (nvidia.conf sorts first) and read
+# the HOOKS they produce. Skip conservatively if evaluation fails.
+hooks=$(bash -c 'source "$1" && source "$2" && echo " ${HOOKS[*]} "' -- "$nvidia_conf" "$hooks_conf") || exit 0
+
+[[ $hooks != *" kms "* ]] || exit 0
+
+echo "This machine no longer uses the kms hook; rebuilding the initramfs without nouveau"
+sudo limine-mkinitcpio
+sudo install -Dm644 /dev/null "$rebuild_marker"
diff --git a/test/shell.d/nvidia-kms-hook-test.sh b/test/shell.d/nvidia-kms-hook-test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..a1804e01
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/shell.d/nvidia-kms-hook-test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+source "$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/base-test.sh"
+
+tmp_dir=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$tmp_dir"' EXIT
+
+hooks_conf="$ROOT/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/omarchy_hooks.conf"
+
+# Each argument is a PCI device as "vendor:class", in sysfs's own format.
+write_pci_devices() {
+  rm -rf "$tmp_dir/devices"
+  mkdir -p "$tmp_dir/devices"
+
+  local index=0
+  local spec
+  for spec in "$@"; do
+    local slot
+    slot=$(printf '0000:%02x:00.0' "$index")
+    mkdir -p "$tmp_dir/devices/$slot"
+    printf '%s\n' "${spec%%:*}" >"$tmp_dir/devices/$slot/vendor"
+    printf '%s\n' "${spec##*:}" >"$tmp_dir/devices/$slot/class"
+    index=$((index + 1))
+  done
+}
+
+# Sources the hook config the way mkinitcpio does — with earlier drop-ins
+# already applied — and prints the resulting HOOKS. mkinitcpio does not run
+# under set -u, but the config must survive it, so source under it anyway.
+# "unset" leaves MODULES undeclared entirely.
+resolved_hooks() {
+  local modules_decl=""
+  [[ $1 == "unset" ]] || modules_decl="MODULES=($1)"
+
+  # The vconsole block sources the host's /etc/vconsole.conf, which may set
+  # only KEYMAP; predefine XKBLAYOUT so its expansion survives set -u and the
+  # test stays independent of the machine it runs on.
+  OMARCHY_PCI_DEVICES_PATH="$tmp_dir/devices" bash -uc "
+    FILES=()
+    XKBLAYOUT=us
+    $modules_decl
+    source '$hooks_conf'
+    echo \"\${HOOKS[*]}\"
+  "
+}
+
+nvidia_modules="nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm"
+
+write_pci_devices
+with_kms=$(resolved_hooks "")
+without_kms=${with_kms/ kms / }
+
+[[ $with_kms == *" kms "* ]] ||
+  fail "baseline HOOKS contains the kms hook" "actual: $with_kms"
+pass "baseline HOOKS contains the kms hook"
+
+assert_hooks() {
+  local description="$1" modules="$2" expected="$3"
+  local actual
+  actual=$(resolved_hooks "$modules")
+
+  [[ $actual == "$expected" ]] ||
+    fail "$description" "expected: $expected"$'\n'"actual:   $actual"
+  pass "$description"
+}
+
+# NVIDIA RTX class display controller.
+write_pci_devices 0x10de:0x030000
+assert_hooks "nvidia-only system with early nvidia_drm drops only kms" \
+  "$nvidia_modules" "$without_kms"
+assert_hooks "nvidia-only system without early nvidia_drm keeps kms" \
+  "" "$with_kms"
+assert_hooks "unset MODULES under set -u keeps kms without erroring" \
+  "unset" "$with_kms"
+
+# AMD integrated graphics next to an NVIDIA 3D controller.
+write_pci_devices 0x1002:0x030000 0x10de:0x030200
+assert_hooks "hybrid system keeps kms for the iGPU" \
+  "$nvidia_modules" "$with_kms"
+
+# NVIDIA audio function only: no display controller found.
+write_pci_devices 0x10de:0x040300
+assert_hooks "no display controller found keeps kms" \
+  "$nvidia_modules" "$with_kms"
+
+write_pci_devices
+assert_hooks "empty PCI tree keeps kms" \
+  "$nvidia_modules" "$with_kms"
+
+# A device directory missing its class/vendor attributes must not error, and
+# counts as inconclusive: it could be another GPU, so kms stays.
+write_pci_devices
+mkdir -p "$tmp_dir/devices/0000:00:00.0"
+assert_hooks "unreadable PCI device keeps kms" \
+  "$nvidia_modules" "$with_kms"
+
+# Even next to a readable NVIDIA GPU — the unreadable device may be the iGPU.
+write_pci_devices 0x10de:0x030000
+mkdir -p "$tmp_dir/devices/0000:01:00.0"
+assert_hooks "unreadable device beside an NVIDIA GPU keeps kms" \
+  "$nvidia_modules" "$with_kms"
diff --git a/test/shell.d/nvidia-kms-migration-test.sh b/test/shell.d/nvidia-kms-migration-test.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..998487ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/shell.d/nvidia-kms-migration-test.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,131 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+source "$(cd -- "$(dirname -- "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)/base-test.sh"
+
+migration="$ROOT/migrations/1786605598.sh"
+packaged_hooks="$ROOT/etc/mkinitcpio.conf.d/omarchy_hooks.conf"
+
+test_tmp=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$test_tmp"' EXIT
+
+stub_bin="$test_tmp/bin"
+calls="$test_tmp/calls.log"
+mkdir -p "$stub_bin"
+: >"$calls"
+
+cat >"$stub_bin/omarchy-cmd-present" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+
+(( ${LIMINE_MKINITCPIO_INSTALLED:-1} == 1 ))
+SH
+
+cat >"$stub_bin/sudo" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+
+printf 'sudo' >>"$TEST_LOG"
+printf '\t%s' "$@" >>"$TEST_LOG"
+printf '\n' >>"$TEST_LOG"
+"$@"
+SH
+
+cat >"$stub_bin/limine-mkinitcpio" <<'SH'
+#!/bin/bash
+
+echo 'limine-mkinitcpio' >>"$TEST_LOG"
+SH
+
+chmod +x "$stub_bin"/*
+
+hooks_conf="$test_tmp/omarchy_hooks.conf"
+nvidia_conf="$test_tmp/nvidia.conf"
+rebuild_marker="$test_tmp/rebuild-complete"
+
+cp "$packaged_hooks" "$hooks_conf"
+echo 'MODULES+=(nvidia nvidia_modeset nvidia_uvm nvidia_drm)' >"$nvidia_conf"
+
+# Each argument is a PCI device as "vendor:class", in sysfs's own format.
+write_pci_devices() {
+  rm -rf "$test_tmp/devices"
+  mkdir -p "$test_tmp/devices"
+
+  local index=0
+  local spec
+  for spec in "$@"; do
+    local slot
+    slot=$(printf '0000:%02x:00.0' "$index")
+    mkdir -p "$test_tmp/devices/$slot"
+    printf '%s\n' "${spec%%:*}" >"$test_tmp/devices/$slot/vendor"
+    printf '%s\n' "${spec##*:}" >"$test_tmp/devices/$slot/class"
+    index=$((index + 1))
+  done
+}
+
+run_migration() {
+  PATH="$stub_bin:$PATH" \
+    TEST_LOG="$calls" \
+    OMARCHY_MKINITCPIO_HOOKS_CONF="$hooks_conf" \
+    OMARCHY_MKINITCPIO_NVIDIA_CONF="$nvidia_conf" \
+    OMARCHY_KMS_REBUILD_MARKER="$rebuild_marker" \
+    OMARCHY_PCI_DEVICES_PATH="$test_tmp/devices" \
+    bash -euo pipefail "$migration" >/dev/null
+}
+
+# NVIDIA-only machine with the proprietary driver: the packaged conditional
+# drops kms, so the stale initramfs must be rebuilt once.
+write_pci_devices 0x10de:0x030000
+run_migration
+
+grep -Fxq 'limine-mkinitcpio' "$calls" ||
+  fail "an NVIDIA-only machine rebuilds its initramfs"
+[[ -f $rebuild_marker ]] || fail "the rebuild records the machine-wide repair"
+pass "migration rebuilds the initramfs on an NVIDIA-only machine"
+
+: >"$calls"
+run_migration
+
+[[ ! -s $calls ]] || fail "a recorded rebuild is not repeated" "$(cat "$calls")"
+pass "migration is machine-idempotent across users"
+
+rm -f "$rebuild_marker"
+: >"$calls"
+run_migration
+
+grep -Fxq 'limine-mkinitcpio' "$calls" ||
+  fail "an interrupted rebuild is retried"
+pass "migration retries an interrupted rebuild"
+
+# Hybrid machine: the conditional keeps kms, so the initramfs already matches.
+write_pci_devices 0x1002:0x030000 0x10de:0x030200
+rm -f "$rebuild_marker"
+: >"$calls"
+run_migration
+
+[[ ! -s $calls ]] || fail "a hybrid machine is left alone" "$(cat "$calls")"
+[[ ! -e $rebuild_marker ]] || fail "an untouched machine is not marked as repaired"
+pass "migration skips a hybrid machine that keeps kms"
+
+# A user-edited hooks conf predating the conditional (the packaged update sits
+# in a .pacnew) still carries kms unconditionally: nothing to rebuild for.
+write_pci_devices 0x10de:0x030000
+echo 'HOOKS=(base udev autodetect modconf kms block filesystems fsck)' >"$hooks_conf"
+: >"$calls"
+run_migration
+
+[[ ! -s $calls ]] || fail "a user-edited hooks conf is left alone" "$(cat "$calls")"
+pass "migration skips a hooks conf without the conditional"
+
+cp "$packaged_hooks" "$hooks_conf"
+
+: >"$calls"
+LIMINE_MKINITCPIO_INSTALLED=0 run_migration
+
+[[ ! -s $calls ]] || fail "installs without limine-mkinitcpio are skipped" "$(cat "$calls")"
+
+mv "$nvidia_conf" "$nvidia_conf.away"
+run_migration
+mv "$nvidia_conf.away" "$nvidia_conf"
+
+[[ ! -s $calls ]] || fail "machines without the proprietary NVIDIA driver are skipped" "$(cat "$calls")"
+pass "migration skips installs it does not apply to"