Clean Slate - Remove All nVidia Drivers

Hi All,

I am focusing back on my HP Z820.

I believe I have many nvidia drivers installed and they might be conflicting with each other. How do I remove all, many current dependencies, so I can start over?

Regards,

Gerry

Configure Graphics Cards - Automated Identification and Installation

automatic detection and installation of the best available free driver for a pci-connected graphics card:

sudo mhwd -a pci free 0300 

Or click Auto-install Open-Source Driver in Manjaro Settings Manager - Hardware Configuration

According to your screenshot, the only driver installed is the 470,
the mhwd- files are not drivers but dependencies for mhwd.

The only problem I see is that you have opencl-nvidia 550.120-1 which obviously should be the same version as your driver.

Please do not post screenshots. Instead, edit your first post to provide the output of the following with proper formatting. Please also remove the screenshot.

mhwd --listinstalled
pamac list --installed | grep nvidia

Thanks for the reply. Still learning formatting rules. I am not able to remove anything because of all the dependencies. Ideally, I would like to install 550.120 to match opencl-nvidia. DaVinci Resolve requires latest driver.

mhwd --listinstalled

> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    video-nvidia-470xx            2023.03.23               false            PCI
           video-linux            2024.05.06                true            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!
pamac list --installed | grep nvidia
lib32-nvidia-470xx-utils                     470.256.02-1                    multilib  119.7 MB
linux610-nvidia-470xx                        470.256.02-46                   extra     35.0 MB
linux611-nvidia-470xx                        470.256.02-13                   extra     35.0 MB
linux66-nvidia-470xx                         470.256.02-26                   extra     34.8 MB
mhwd-nvidia                                  550.120-1                       extra     1.8 kB
mhwd-nvidia-390xx                            390.157-14                      extra     1.9 kB
mhwd-nvidia-470xx                            470.256.02-4                    extra     1.8 kB
nvidia-470xx-settings                        470.256.02-1                    extra     1.5 MB
nvidia-470xx-utils                           470.256.02-4                    extra     441.3 MB
opencl-nvidia                                550.120-1                       extra     23.6 MB

Now do

mhwd -l

To see if you are compatible with the latest drivers (or mhwd thinks so).

As to your original question - uninstall opencl-nvidia and your 470 mhwd profile;

sudo pacman -Rns opencl-nvidia
sudo mhwd -r pci video-nvidia-470xx

Then you can install whatever mhwd profile you like.

Assuming you are offered/compatible with the latest then;

sudo mhwd -i pci video-nvidia

Thanks to all who replied.

I did have to remove some dependencies here and there to get the 470 match.

Regards,

Gerry

inxi -G

Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GK110GL [Quadro K6000] driver: nvidia v: 470.256.02
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.14 driver: X: loaded: N/A
    failed: nvidia gpu: nvidia resolution: 1: 1920x1080~60Hz 2: 1920x1080~60Hz
  API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,nvidia,swrast
    platforms: gbm,x11,surfaceless,device
  API: OpenGL v: 4.6.0 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: nvidia mesa v: 470.256.02
    renderer: Quadro K6000/PCIe/SSE2

sudo nvidia-smi

Sat Nov 9 08:42:12 2024

+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| NVIDIA-SMI 470.256.02   Driver Version: 470.256.02   CUDA Version: 11.4     |
|-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
| GPU  Name        Persistence-M| Bus-Id        Disp.A | Volatile Uncorr. ECC |
| Fan  Temp  Perf  Pwr:Usage/Cap|         Memory-Usage | GPU-Util  Compute M. |
|                               |                      |               MIG M. |
|===============================+======================+======================|
|   0  Quadro K6000        Off  | 00000000:41:00.0  On |                  Off |
| 26%   40C    P8    27W / 225W |    255MiB / 12204MiB |      0%      Default |
|                               |                      |                  N/A |
+-------------------------------+----------------------+----------------------+
                                                                               
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
| Processes:                                                                  |
|  GPU   GI   CI        PID   Type   Process name                  GPU Memory |
|        ID   ID                                                   Usage      |
|=============================================================================|
|    0   N/A  N/A     11458      G   /usr/lib/Xorg                     161MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     26381      G   xfwm4                               3MiB |
|    0   N/A  N/A     26776      G   ...on=20241108-130108.678000       85MiB |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

mhwd --listinstalled

> Installed PCI configs:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  NAME               VERSION          FREEDRIVER           TYPE
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    video-nvidia-470xx            2023.03.23               false            PCI


Warning: No installed USB configs!

Test

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