I’m one of the people that lost his max. resolution after the latest stable update. I saw people with similar problems and currently I’m on the video-nvidia driver, but I wanted to switch to the video-nvidia-570xx since it seems my graphics card is getting to old and that solved the problem for the other users. I have a Geforce GTX 1080TI. I tried with 6.17 and 6.18 as kernel.
My problem is, I can’t use the manjaro-settings manager to switch the driver as I can’t install the 570 version: Error: config 'video-nvidia-570xx' conflicts with config(s): video-nvidia
That article wasn’t helpful. I’ve read it before posting here. But the mentioned steps don’t work since I still get the same error. I could try to force the uninstall of the driver, but the article mentions danger and not to do it unless you know what you do. I’m not sure about that. I don’t want to wipe my whole desktop because it has that as dependencies or something…
What I’d expect is, that if there is a conflicting driver that it removes the conflicting driver and replaces it with the selected one, similar how Pacman/Pamac are doing it with other packages.
So I removed steam-native-runtime and linux-nvidia-meta. After that I could uninstall the old driver. But the driver for 570 didn’t install. Also the linux-nvidia failed since there were still files in the directory /usr/lib32/lib*, I did a reboot, expecting it to break the DE, and it did. I checked the install from the command line and it still failed.
So I checked the files with pacman -Qo /usr/lib32/* one by one and it mentioned it doesn’t belong to any installed package. So I manually delete the conflicting files and afterwards attempted to install linux-nvidia-570xx again and finally it worked. Another reboot and finally the default resolution works again.
This should be a bit more foolproof overall. When things like this go wrong, it makes me nervous. No clue why the files didn’t get removed by removing the package…