After [Stable Update] 2025-12-08 All Games broken

[desperis]

Hi Manjaro community,

After last update all games are broken, game start and I can hear sounds but screen is black.
Same thing happens on this same machine on vanilla arch Linux month ago I was lazy to resolve it so i moved to Manjaro and now same thing happend here.

On Manjaro before update i was using X11 now its dissappear and im on wayland and my games are already not working.

On vanilla arch I was using wayland 3-5 months without any issues.

Info about system:

CPU: i9 14900k
Graphics:
 Device-1: Intel Raptor Lake-S GT1 \[UHD Graphics 770\] vendor: Gigabyte
   driver: i915 v: kernel alternate: xe arch: Xe process: Intel 10nm
   built: 2020-21 ports: active: none empty: DP-1,HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2
   bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:a780 class-ID: 0380
 Device-2: NVIDIA GB202 \[GeForce RTX 5090\] vendor: Micro-Star MSI
   driver: nvidia v: 580.105.08 alternate: nouveau,nova_core,nvidia_drm
   non-free: 550-580.xx+ status: current (as of 2025-11) arch: Lovelace
   code: AD1xx process: TSMC n4 (5nm) built: 2022+ pcie: gen: 1
   speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 5 speed: 32 GT/s ports:
   active: DP-2 empty: DP-3,DP-4,HDMI-A-3 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:2b85
   class-ID: 0300
 Display: wayland server: X org v: 1.21.1.21 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.9
   compositor: kwin_wayland driver: X: loaded: nvidia
   gpu: nv_platform,nvidia,nvidia-nvswitch display-ID: 0
 Monitor-1: DP-2 model: MSI G32CQ4 E2 built: 2022 res: mode: 2560x1440
   hz: 165 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2 size: 697x392mm (27.44x15.43")
   diag: 800mm (31.5") ratio: 16:9 modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 640x480
 API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: nvidia platforms: device: 0 drv: nvidia device: 3
   drv: swrast gbm: drv: kms_swrast surfaceless: drv: nvidia wayland:
   drv: swrast x11: drv: swrast inactive: device-1,device-2
 API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 580.105.08
   glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090/PCIe/SSE2
   memory: 31.1 GiB display-ID: :1.0
 API: Vulkan v: 1.4.328 layers: 9 device: 0 type: discrete-gpu
   name: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 driver: nvidia v: 580.105.08
   device-ID: 10de:2b85 surfaces: N/A
 Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
   de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor gpu: nvidia-settings,nvidia-smi
   wl: wayland-info x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr

VKCUBE result:
vkcube
Selected WSI platform: wayland
MESA: error: Unknown kernel mode driver
fish: Job 1, ‘vkcube’ terminated by signal SIGSEGV (Address boundary error)

kernel:
6.17.11-1-MANJARO

do anyone have same issues?

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[jofi]

@desperis

MESA: error: Unknown kernel mode driver

There are two easy things to try first. One is to open the Manjaro settings manager, go to kernels and install the latest 6.18. The second one is to install plasma-x11-session so you can run Plasma in an X session. Maybe one of these or both together help already.

[desperis]

Kernel update did not help but installing plasma-x11-session helps
Now issue is resolved, thank you!

[soundofthunder]

@desperis

@desperis

Kernel update did not help but installing plasma-x11-session helps

This information is also found in:

Known Issues and Solutions

@Plasma 6.5 will need manual intervention if you are on X11

On Plasma 6.5 the wayland session will be the only one installed when the users does not manually specify kwin-x11.

With the recent split of kwin into kwin-wayland and kwin-x11, users running the old X11 session needs to manually install plasma-x11-session after the system update completed, or they will not be able to login. Currently pacman is not able to figure out your personal setup, and it wouldn’t be ok to install plasma-x11-session for every one using Plasma.

It’s recommended to always check Update Announcement threads for the latest breaking news about update issues.

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